ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,369, issued on April 29, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Self-correcting circuitry" was invented by Patrick Murphy (Cork, Ireland), Cornelius O'Shea (Cork, Ireland), Joe Canning (Cork, Ireland), Dariusz Piotr Palubiak (Cork, Ireland) and Vitali Karasenko (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include herein are directed towards various circuit topologies. A self-correcting latch circuit may include a plurality of memory loops, a plurality of clock inputs, a plurality of data inputs, and a plurality of outputs. Each of the plurality of memory loops may be configured to store data in p...