US Patent Issued to MediaTek on Aug. 5 for "Digital phase-locked loop and related merged duty cycle calibration scheme for frequency synthesizers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,563, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Digital phase-locked loop and related merged duty cycle calibration scheme for frequency synthesizers" was invented by Ahmed Safwat Mohamed Aboelenein Elmallah (San Jose, Calif.), Mohammed Mohsen Abdulsalam Abdullatif (San Jose, Calif.) and Tamer Mohammed Ali (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques described herein relate to duty cycle error calibration. An example apparatus includes a multi-modulus divider (MMD) circuit configured to receive a first digital code corresponding to a first time delay and included in a first plurality of digi...