US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Dec. 2 for "Gray code counter enabled to increment by greater than one" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,631, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Gray code counter enabled to increment by greater than one" was invented by Alan Geist (Gladstone, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Gray code counter is enabled to increment by greater than one and still obey a rule of only one bit of change. The Gray code counter has applicability, for example, with use with an arbiter to control a multi-input asynchronous FIFO usable to synchronize data transfers between asynchronous source and destination clock domains."

The patent was filed on Jan. 23, 2024, under Application No. 18/420,699.

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