ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,361, issued on May 27, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Signal receiving apparatus and operation method thereof having phase compensation mechanism" was invented by Hao-Han Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chuan-Hu Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chung-Yao Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a signal receiving apparatus having phase compensation mechanism. A first and a second receiving path of a receiving circuit perform frequency down-conversion and analog-to-digital conversion on an input signal to generate a first and a second receiving signals. The first and the se...