ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,114, issued on April 29, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to retime data using a programmable delay" was invented by Bhavesh G. Bhakta (Richardson, Texas), Venkateswara Reddy Pothireddy (McKinney, Texas) and Abhijit Kumar Das (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a controller having a first controller terminal, a second controller terminal, and a third controller terminal and digitally locked loop (DLL) circuitry having a first DLL terminal and a second DLL terminal, the first DLL terminal coupled to the first controller terminal. The system also includes first r...