ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,326, issued on May 27, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Delay circuit" was invented by Shishir Kumar (Uttar Pradesh, India) and Vinay Kumar (Aligarh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delay circuit. In some embodiments, a non-transitory computer readable medium includes stored instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to generate a digital representation of a circuit including: a first inverter, having an input, an output, and two power supply connections; a first current source, electrically coupled in series between a power supply conductor and a power supply connection of the two...