ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,193, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Pulse filter" was invented by Cosmin Iorga (Westlake Village, Calif.) and Ruibing Zhang (West Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulse filter circuit is configured to eliminate pulses that are less than a specified duration and pass those that are greater than the specified duration. A buffer receives a signal and applies the buffered signal to a resistance-capacitance charging-discharging circuit (e.g., RC filter). When the output of the RC filter has, in response to the buffered signal, charged or discharged, as appropriate, to cause the output of a...