ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,674, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Signal generating circuit and signal generating method" was invented by Chih-Yuan Yeh (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal generating circuit and a signal generating method are provided. The signal generating circuit includes a first synchronization circuit configured to synchronize a beacon signal and a first signal edge of a clock signal to generate a first synchronization signal; a frequency dividing circuit configured to receive the clock signal and perform frequency division operation on the clock signal to generate a freque...