US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Feb. 24 for "Methods of balancing clock skew in stacked semiconductor devices" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,722, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods of balancing clock skew in stacked semiconductor devices" was invented by Shravan Lakshman (Austin, Texas), Sudarshan Selvarajan (Austin, Texas) and Russell Schreiber (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of fabricating a semiconductor device include securing a first die to a second die. The first die includes a first clock signal path from a clock source to a first load and passing through a tap point electrically connected to a clock output. The second die includes a second clock signal path from a clock input to a se...