ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,334, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Clock signal realignment for emulation of a circuit design" was invented by Alexander Rabinovitch (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Manish Shroff (Milford, Mass.) and Baijayanta Ray (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuit designs are emulated to verify the functionality of the circuit design. Emulating the circuit design includes obtaining a circuit design. The circuit design includes clock signals. Each of the clock signals is a data path clock signal. Further, a first clock signal of the clock signals is determined to be faster than a second clock signa...