ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,379, issued on June 10, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to synchronize signals in energy efficient ethernet protocols" was invented by Raghu Ganesan (Bangalore, India) and Saravanakkumar Radhakrishnan (Aruppukottai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems to synchronize Ethernet signals are disclosed. An example apparatus includes slicer circuitry having an input coupled to interface circuitry and having an output, the slicer circuitry configured to receive an analog signal corresponding to a first Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) clock in a plurality of ADC clocks...