US Patent Issued to MediaTek on Nov. 4 for "Phase error compensation circuit and method for compensating phase error between reference clock and feedback clock" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,623, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Phase error compensation circuit and method for compensating phase error between reference clock and feedback clock" was invented by Wei-Hao Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Song-Yu Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ang-Sheng Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase error compensation circuit and a method for compensating a phase error between a reference clock and a feedback clock are provided. The phase error compensation circuit includes a first programmable delay circuit, a second programmable delay circuit and at least one swapping circuit. The first prog...