ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,164, issued on July 29, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Asynchronous data transfer" was invented by Alex James Waugh (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided with asynchronous boundary transfer circuitry to transfer data across a clock domain boundary. The asynchronous boundary transfer circuitry has buffer circuitry with buffer storage elements, and source and sink synchronisation circuitry to control the transfer of the data. To initiate a transfer of data items, the source synchronisation circuitry sends a transfer request to the sink synchronisation circuitry indicati...