ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,217, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Duty compensation scheme" was invented by Takeo Yasuda (Nara, Japan) and Kohji Hosokawa (Ohtsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A global clock signal distribution system includes a distribution line that includes gates for signal distribution, a function block gate with at least two input ports and a duty compensation gate with at least two input ports. The duty compensation gate is inserted in the distribution line following the function block gate for balancing rise-to-fall delay and fall-to-rise delay. The duty compensation gate de...