ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,998, issued on July 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Synchronization of integrated circuit dies that contain a processor and clock generator by adjusting delay lines based on phase count" was invented by Charles Walter Boecker (Ames, Iowa), Piyush Abhay Hatolkar (Hillsboro, Ore.), Asad Azam (Portland, Ore.) and Maya Subhadra (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for synchronizing processors. In one embodiment, one or more processors on different integrated circuit die are synchronized using a synchronization circuit on one of th...