US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on June 17 for "Duty cycle distortion (DCD) sampling in a low-swing transmitter" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,926, issued on June 17, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Duty cycle distortion (DCD) sampling in a low-swing transmitter" was invented by Igal Kushnir (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Naor Peretz (Kiryat Ata, Israel) and Roi Levi (Bruchin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for duty cycle distortion (DCD) estimation are described. A transmitter includes a first output driver comprising a first complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) amplifier and a first attenuator coupled to an output of the first CMOS amplifier. The first CMOS amplifier receives an input signal and outputs an intermediate...