ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,115, issued on April 29, was assigned to Renesas Electronics Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Yusuke Imanaka (Tokyo) and Atsushi Motozawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a phase interpolation circuit including an N-bit current digital-analog conversion circuit, a switch circuit, a capacitive element, an inverter, and a control logic circuit. The control logic circuit detects an end of a phase interpolation operation by using an output result of the inverter and outputs a first control signal for turning off the current digital-analog conversion circuit. Also, the control logic...