ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,589, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor apparatus performing a plurality of clock signaling operations and semiconductor system including the same" was invented by Ji Hyo Kang (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Kyung Hoon Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor apparatus includes a clock distribution network, a data output circuit, and a data input circuit. The clock distribution network receives a system clock signal and drives the system clock signal to a CMOS level and a CML level to signal in different manners. The data output circuit outputs data...