ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,174, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Clock-free serialization of asynchronous signals" was invented by Victor Zyuban (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hemangi U. Gajjewar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ajay Bhatia (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A serializer circuit for a computer system is disclosed. The serializer circuit may receive multiple asynchronous signals, and generate a particular serialized signal by blocking transitions of a particular asynchronous signal that corresponds to the particular serialized signal in response to a detection of a transition of at least one of the remaining asynch...