US Patent Issued to Altera on Sept. 30 for "Freeze and clear logic circuits and methods for integrated circuits" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,903, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Freeze and clear logic circuits and methods for integrated circuits" was invented by Sadegh Yazdanshenas (Toronto) and Jeffrey Chromczak (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a programmable logic circuit and freeze circuitry coupled to receive a freeze signal and a control signal. The integrated circuit also includes a logic circuit coupled to receive an output signal of the programmable logic circuit. The logic circuit is also coupled to receive an output signal of the freeze circuitry. The freeze circuitry causes an output s...