ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,442, issued on July 22, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Low power clock network" was invented by Po Chun Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shao-Yu Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first clock signal is generated from a reference clock signal. A first frequency associated with the first clock signal is less than a reference clock frequency associated with the reference clock signal. The first clock signal is propagated towards a first component of an integrated circuit through a clock tree. A second clock signal having a second frequency is generated from the first clock sig...