ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,126, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"System and method for generating sampling strobe for sampling an input signal" was invented by Nathaniel Guilar (San Carlos, Calif.), John Patrick Keane (San Jose, Calif.) and Robert Neff (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for generating a sampling strobe, which controls a sampling device to sample an input signal, includes a phase shifter configured to phase shift an input clock to provide multiple phase shifted input clock signals; and aperture generating circuits configured to generate sampling clock signals from the p...