ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,717, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Auradine Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Recycling charge between clock nets" was invented by David Carlson (Haslet, Texas) and Raju Rakha (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the present disclosure relates to an electronic circuit including: a first clock net with a first clock wire coupled to a first set of latches or flip-flops; a second clock net with a second clock wire coupled to a second set of latches or flip-flops; a first driver circuit coupled to the first clock wire and configured to drive the first clock net to one of a first clock state or a second cloc...