US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Feb. 10 for "Clock distribution network, and a semiconductor apparatus and a semiconductor system including the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,610, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Clock distribution network, and a semiconductor apparatus and a semiconductor system including the same" was invented by Ji Hyo Kang (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock distribution network includes at least two buffers that receive the same clock signal and generate different clock signals. In a first operation mode, the at least two buffers are all activated. In a second operation mode, one of the at least two buffers is activated. In the second operation mode, the other one of the at least two buffers is partially activated ...