US Patent Issued to Altera on May 27 for "Via configurable edge-combiner with duty cycle correction" (Malaysian, Romanian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,328, issued on May 27, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Via configurable edge-combiner with duty cycle correction" was invented by Chooi Pei Lim (Bayan Baru, Malaysia), Eah Loon Alan Chuah (Tanjung Tokong, Malaysia), Eng Huat Lee (Bayan Lepas, Malaysia), Marian Serban (Brasov, Romania) and Marian Cretu (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device with a single via layer, in which the via layer includes selectable via sites and/or jumpers. The selectable via sites and/or placement of jumpers may be used to configure and interconnect components and circuitry between distinct layers of multilayer ...