ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,332, issued on May 27, was assigned to NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA (Ottawa).

"Digital clean up oscillator" was invented by Brent Carlson (Penticton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital clean-up oscillator and associated method are provided for cleaning jitter from a noisy clock signal, comprising receiving a reference clock oscillator signal and the noisy clock signal to be cleaned: measuring the frequency of the reference clock signal in the time domain of the noisy clock signal: filtering any frequency variations from the measured frequency of the reference clock signal on timescales shorter than a phase change ...