US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University on June 10 for "System and method for clock distribution in a digital circuit" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,075, issued on June 10, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method for clock distribution in a digital circuit" was invented by Sarma Vrudhula (Chandler, Ariz.) and Ankit Wagle (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for clock distribution in a digital circuit. In some embodiments, the method, includes: modifying a synchronous digital logic circuit, the modifying including: replacing a first D flipflop in the circuit with a local-clocking source flipflop; and connecting a clock output of the local-clocking source flipflop to a clock i...