ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,856, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Low latency synchronization" was invented by Ariel Pescovsky (Kfar Saba, Israel), Itai Avron (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Roi Ben Haim (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit to synchronize a pulse signal from a first clock domain to a second clock domain includes a first flip-flop and a second flip-flop. The first flip-flop has a first stage input, a first clock input, and a first stage output. The first clock input is driven by a first clock signal of the first clock domain, and the first stage input is driven by a result of XOR-in...