ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,776, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Duty cycle correction" was invented by Joseph Dale Rutkowski (Chandler, Ariz.), Liangguo Shen (San Diego) and Milind Sawant (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a device may comprise a digital modulator to generate a first pulse width modulation (PWM) signal. The device may comprise a first power stage component to generate a first output PWM signal based on the first PWM signal. The device may comprise a first sampling component to sample the first output PWM signal and generate a first sampled output PWM signal. The device may comprise...