ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,532, issued on June 17, was assigned to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and method for phase tracking an oscillatory signal" was invented by Colin Gerard McNamara (Oxford, Great Britain) and Andrew David Sharott (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for phase tracking an oscillatory signal are provided. In one arrangement, an input signal is received. First and second reference oscillatory signals are received at the frequency of a target frequency component of the input signal. The first and second reference oscillatory signals are phase shifted relative to ...