ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,533, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Clock doubler and a semiconductor apparatus using the same" was invented by Ji Hyo Kang (Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock doubler includes a first differential gate and a second differential gate. The first differential gate generates an output clock signal from a first clock signal, a first complementary clock signal, a second clock signal, and a second complementary clock signal and adjusts a duty cycle of the output clock signal based on a first bias control signal. The second differential gate generates a comple...