ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,859, issued on May 20, was assigned to Acceleware Ltd. (Calgary, Canada).

"Systems and methods for asynchronous data communication in noisy environments" was invented by Jorgen S. Nielsen (Calgary, Canada) and Michal M. Okoniewski (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for asynchronous data communication are disclosed. The system includes one or more peripheral devices, a processing device, and one or more communication channels. Each peripheral device includes a peripheral clock and a quantizer. The processing device is remotely located from each peripheral device and includes a processor clock that is a...