US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Sept. 22 for "Segment clock gating" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,121, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Segment clock gating" was invented by Benjamin Tsien (Santa Clara, Calif.), Pravesh Gupta (Bangalore, India), Madhusudan Chilakam (Boxborough, Mass.), Jeffrey Lynn Freeman (Austin, Texas), Indrani Paul (Austin, Texas), Guhan Krishnan (Boxborough, Mass.), Ann M. Ling (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Chandana Yerneni (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed device includes various circuit blocks and a clock tree for sending a clock signal to the circuit blocks. The clock tree includes various clock drivers. The device also in...