ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,622, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Duty cycle calibration circuit, corresponding transmitter, communication system and method" was invented by Massimo Pozzoni (Pavia, Italy), Paolo Viola (Pavia, Italy), Pasquale D'Argenio (Mercogliano, Italy) and Augusto Andrea Rossi (Pavia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In embodiments, a clock signal calibration circuit for communication transmitters includes a multiplexer that creates a combined output pattern from input data patterns in reaction to the clock signal's edges. It uses a calibration data pattern generator, which supplies two...