Marvell Assigned Patent

Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (8,982,681) developed by Liu, Jingfeng, Longmont, CO, and Oberg, Mats, Cupertino, CA, for a “method and device for increased pull-in range of a timing recovery circuit for storage devices.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method and device for determining frequency error to extend the pull-in range of a timing recovery circuit for a storage device such as an optical disc drive. A code associated with a storage format of the storage device is detected, and the distance between occurrences of the code is determined. The calculated distance is compared with the expected distance to determine the difference. Based on the difference, the frequency error is determined.“

The patent application was filed on November 7, 2013 (14/074,299).