US Patent Issued to Altera on April 1 for "Configurable clock macro circuits and methods" (Russian, American, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,417, issued on April 1, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Configurable clock macro circuits and methods" was invented by Alexander Rusakov (Moscow), Alexander Andreev (San Jose, Calif.), Eng Huat Lee (Bayan Lepas, Malaysia) and Andrei Nikishin (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a clock macro circuit. The clock macro circuit includes first, second, and third latch circuits and a multiplexer circuit. The first latch circuit is coupled to the second latch circuit. The multiplexer circuit is coupled to the second and third latch circuits. The clock macro circuit includes programmable via...