US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Jan. 27 for "Programmable delay-locked loop (DLL) that utilizes a low power phase detector" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,663, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Programmable delay-locked loop (DLL) that utilizes a low power phase detector" was invented by Gajanan Maroti Devpuje (Karnataka, India), Mohamed Jabir (Alappuzha, India), Ayush Mittal (Karnataka, India), Anurag Tiwari (Karnataka, India), Krishnaswamy Thiagarajan (Karnataka, India) and Bhushan Shanti Asuri (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delay-locked loop (DLL) is provided that ensures that the phase outputs that are provided as inputs to the harmonic rejection mixer (HRM) are sufficiently accurate to allow the HRM to effectively cancel out the spurious h...