ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,678, issued on April 21, was assigned to Global Unichip Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device, interface device and operation method" was invented by Bi-Yang Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Igor Elkanovich (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hung-Yi Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shih-Cheng Kao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interface device includes a first controllable delay line (CDL), a first clock generator (CG), a phase detector (PD), a second CDL, and a second CG arranged on a second die. The first CDL delays a source clock signal of a first die to generate a fi...