US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 2 for "Processor chip timing adjustment enhancement" (Minnesota, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,119, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Processor chip timing adjustment enhancement" was invented by Todd A. Christensen (Rochester, Minn.), John E. Sheets II (Zumbrota, Minn.), Eric Marz (Williston, Vt.) and Kirk D. Peterson (Jericho, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data relating to one or more circuit paths may be collected during a design stage of a processor chip based on a design model. One or more delta values may be added to the one or more circuit paths of the design model. One or more broken circuit paths may be identified based on the one or more delta values. A tar...