ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,207, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"System and methods for overshoot and undershoot reduction in phase interpolators" was invented by Rapina Siva Kumar (Bengaluru, India), Ziyu Wang (North Vancouver, Canada) and Sudheer Babu Ketana (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase interpolator may include a decoding logic circuit. The decoding logic circuit may take as input an input control code and an update clock. The decoding logic circuit may generate one or more outputs which may be input to a retiming circuit. The retiming circuit may generate retimed outputs which may b...