ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,240, issued on July 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Selectable clock sources" was invented by Kishore Kasichainula (Phoenix) and Satheesh Chellappan (Folsom, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques for selectable clock sources are described herein. An electronic device includes an oscillator for a first clock signal and a tap on an input signal line to a resonator for the oscillator. The tap enables receipt of a second clock signal from an external oscillator. The electronic device includes mode selection circuitry to receives a signal from a tap to an existing input line to the electronic de...