US Patent Issued to Arm on June 23 for "Timeout period generation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,828, issued on June 23, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Timeout period generation" was invented by Rohan Gaddh (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Thomas Sean Houlihane (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus comprising first processing circuitry operating in a first clock domain having a first clock signal operating at a first clock period. The apparatus is provided with timeout period generation circuitry to couple with a second clock domain to generate a timeout clock signal, the second clock domain comprising second processing circuitry and having a second clock sig...