ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,394, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Techniques for monitoring digital timing margins" was invented by Rainer Herberholz (Great Abington, Great Britain) and Shidhartha Das (Upper Cambourne, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations described herein are directed to a device having core circuitry and hardware with functional paths and canary paths that are co-located with the functional paths. The device may have timing monitors that monitor and measure digital timing margins of the functional paths and the canary paths during droop events. Also, the device may have a ...