ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,223, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PROTEANTECS LTD. (Haifa, Israel).

"Adaptive frequency scaling based on clock cycle time measurement" was invented by Eyal Fayneh (Givatayim, Israel), Inbar Weintrob (Givat Ada, Israel), Evelyn Landman (Haifa, Israel), Faten Tanasra (Nazareth, Israel), Guy Redler (Haifa, Israel) and Shai Tzroia (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generation of a clock signal in a semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) is controlled using a Noise Modulation Agent (NMA), configured to measure the clock signal and output a parameter indicative of an effective cycle time of the clock signal. An Adaptive Fre...