ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,344, issued on July 1, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Configurable transmitter architecture for supporting multiple data rates" was invented by Shourya Kansal (Immadihalli, India) and Aditya Aurangabadkar (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for supporting multiple data rates are presented. A method includes generating a clock signal from a clock source, serializing, by an analog serializer, a data stream in response to the clock signal to output N data in parallel, coupling a pulse generation circuit to the clock signal, wherein a first switch and a second switch electrically communicat...