ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,283, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Programmable self-biasing inverter for correcting duty cycle distortion" was invented by Nitz Saputra (San Diego) and Sameer Wadhwa (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock conditioning circuit includes a duty cycle correction circuit. The duty cycle correction circuit has a first input capacitor, a first self-biasing inverter and a variable capacitor. The first self-biasing inverter has an input coupled to the first input capacitor. The variable capacitor may be coupled to the first input capacitor. The variable capacitor may be configured to receive a fi...