ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,077, issued on May 27, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Wireline transceiver with internal and external clock generation" was invented by Li Cai (Singapore), Sau Siong Chong (Singapore), Chang-Feng Loi (Singapore) and Lawrence Tse (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device having functional circuitry driven by a clock signal includes onboard clock generation circuitry. The clock generation circuitry includes an input configured to accept a frequency reference signal, at least one variable loading capacitor coupled to the input for converting the crystal resonator signal into a calib...