ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,967, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Delay locked loop" was invented by Prakhar Tandon (Hyderabad, India), Dileep Ramanolla (Hyderabad, India), Uma Maheswara Reddy Poreddy (Hyderabad, India) and Shivesh Kumar Dubey (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delay locked loop (DLL) circuit includes a voltage-controlled delay line (VCDL) that applies a time delay to a clock-in signal to provide a first output signal and a last output signal. The magnitude of the time delay is based on the control-voltage signal and a delay code. The DLL circuit includes a feedback circuit configured to provide ...