ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,014, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Movellus Circuits Inc. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Self-aligning interconnect for a digital system" was invented by Marcus Van Ierssel (Toronto), Vikram Karvat (Saratoga, Calif.), Jeffrey Alan Fredenburg (Chicago), Brian Che Yuen Lam (Richmond Hill, Canada), David Moore (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Saif Elam (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) chip includes transmit circuitry including multiple transmitters to launch parallel data in response to a transmit clock signal. The transmit clock signal is based on a reference clock signal. Receiver circuitry includes multip...