ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,958, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to EM Microelectronic-Marin SA (Marin, Switzerland).

"Clock distribution network" was invented by Ovidiu Sima (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock distribution network (10) including a clock generator (14) configured to generate at least a processor clock signal and at least a first peripheral clock signal, the clock generator including a processor clock output (31), a first peripheral clock output (32) and a first clock request input (42). A first peripheral unit (22) via a first clock request input (42) is operable to trigger the clock generator (14) to transmit the first peripheral cl...