ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,154, issued on June 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Frequency detector and operating method thereof" was invented by Jahoon Jin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyunghwan Min (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soomin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sodam Ju (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a frequency detector. The frequency detector includes a first flip-flop sampling a clock signal based on a data signal to generate a first signal, a second flip-flop sampling a delayed-phase component of the clock signal based on the data signal or sampl...