ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,194, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Common bias control for devices having uncorrelated power supplies" was invented by Navneet K. Jain (Milpitas, Calif.), Arif A. Siddiqi (Milpitas, Calif.) and Mahbub Rashed (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for generating a common bias for a device component having a first circuit powered by a first power supply and a second circuit powered by a second power supply. A method includes: arranging a circuit path in a ring oscillator to replicate a logic depth of both the first circuit and the second circuit, wherein the ...