US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on July 8 for "Method and apparatus for passing clock signals between time domains" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,554, issued on July 8, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Method and apparatus for passing clock signals between time domains" was invented by Adi Katz (Ramat Gan, Israel), Moran Noiman (Kiryat Ono, Israel), Yaakov Yehezkel (Rehovot, Israel) and Eliya Babitsky (Caesaria, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reducing jitter in transmission of a timestamp across a clock domain boundary includes storing N timestamps, generated in N successive clock cycles of an origin clock domain, in N parallel buffers in the origin clock domain under control of a modulo-N counter, transmitting outputs of the N parallel buff...