US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on May 6 for "Low-noise speedy duty cycle detector and method thereof" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,377, issued on May 6, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Low-noise speedy duty cycle detector and method thereof" was invented by Chia-Liang (Leon) Lin (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A duty cycle detector includes a current steering network configured to steer a first current into a second current to charge a first capacitor when a clock is in a first state, and to steer the first current into a third current to charge a second capacitor when the clock is in a second state; a first charge sharing switch configured to enable charge sharing between the first capacitor and a third capacitor ...