US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on May 20 for "Apparatus and method of power efficient high-speed clock transmission" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,661, issued on May 20, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Apparatus and method of power efficient high-speed clock transmission" was invented by Chia-Liang (Leon) Lin (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock transmission circuit includes a voltage-to-current converter configured to convert a first clock into a first current; a transmission line configured to convey the first current into a second current; a transformer comprising a primary inductor and a secondary inductor and configured to convert the second current received via the primary inductor into a second clock output via the secon...