ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,662, issued on May 20, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Integrated circuit for clock generation" was invented by Siyaram Sahu (Bari Raisen, India), Anand Kumar Sinha (Noida, India) and Krishna Thakur (GautamBudh Nagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock generator includes a buffer stage to drive an output clock and a slew accelerator circuit to receive a first clock signal and generate an input clock signal to the buffer stage. The slew accelerator circuit includes first, second, and third inverter stages. The first stage generates a pair of non-overlapping clock signals from the first clock signal. A ris...