US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 4 for "Reducing voltage drooping in a microelectronic chip" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,147, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Reducing voltage drooping in a microelectronic chip" was invented by Hagen Schmidt (Tuebingen, Germany), Andreas H. A. Arp (Nufringen, Germany), Knut Schuenemann (Weil im Schoenbuch, Germany) and Simon Buchsenstein (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for reducing voltage drooping in a microelectronic chip, including separating a scan data launch clock from a capture clock with a variable time delay depending on a delay of a succeeding scan path of the latches, where the scan data launch clock and the ca...