ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,972, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Interleaved sampling circuit" was invented by Lei Sun (San Diego), Behnam Sedighi (La Jolla, Calif.) and Honghao Ji (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards an interleaved sampling circuit. The interleaved sampling circuit generally includes: a clock generator having an input coupled to a main clock node and having a plurality of non-overlapping clock output nodes; and a plurality of sampling circuits, each of the plurality of sampling circuits having a first clock input coupled to a respective one of th...