ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,642, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Delay line calibration based on derived reference signals" was invented by Abhijith Kashyap (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Virendra Kumar (Mountain View, Calif.), Bobak Modaress-Razavi (Apex, N.C.), Hao-Yi Wei (Fremont, Calif.) and Vipul Katyal (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improving the accuracy of delay line calibration schemes. For example, an amount of offset may be determined between one or more first portions of a first clock signal and one or more second portions of a second clock signal that is delayed relative to the first cl...