US Patent Issued to Altera on Sept. 22 for "Power savings by register insertion in large combinational circuits" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,119, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Power savings by register insertion in large combinational circuits" was invented by Martin Langhammer (Alderbury, Great Britain), Gregg William Baeckler (San Jose, Calif.), Sergey Vladimirovich Gribok (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Mahesh A. Iyer (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the present disclosure provide techniques for reducing power consumption of a large combinational circuit using register insertion. In particular, a large circuit may be analyzed to determine the amount of signal switching at various logical points (e...