ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,155, issued on June 3, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Phase rotation controller and phase rotation control method" was invented by Yao-Chia Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Tung-Hsien Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase rotation control method includes: detecting whether a phase of an output clock signal of a phase interpolator is going to be switched from a current quadrant to a next quadrant according to a trigger signal to generate a state signal; determining a phase adjustment direction of the output clock signal according to an original phase control signal and the state signal t...