ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,982, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SILICON MITUS INC. (Seongnam-Si, South Korea) and Silicon-Magic Semiconductor Technology (Hangzhou) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Clock and data recovery device" was invented by Young Jae Chang (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Ryong Lee (Seongnam-Si, South Korea) and Jae Sam Shim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock and data recovery device includes an equalizer that compensates for channel loss of input data, a phase detector that compares data output from the equalizer and a fed back clock and outputs an up signal and a down signal, a charge pump that operates according to the ...