ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,810, issued on June 16.

"Clock tree routing in a chip stack" was invented by Brian C. Gaide (Erie, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein generally relate to clock tree routing in a chip stack. In an example, a multi-chip device includes a chip stack. The chip stack includes chips. The chip stack includes a clock tree. In-chip routing of the clock tree is contained within one logical chip of the chip stack. The chip stack includes leaf nodes disposed in respective chips. Each leaf node of the leaf nodes is electrically connected to the clock tree through a respective leaf-level connection bridge. The respectiv...