ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,721, issued on March 17, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Electronic device and method for sampling received data" was invented by Sunanda Manjunath (Munich) and Christian Muller (Kunzell, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device including a master device, the master device including an interface component to a slave device. The interface component includes a sampling circuit having a clock input, a transmit clock generator configured to generate a transmit clock, a first off-chip driver configured to receive the transmit clock and provide the transmit clock to the slave device, a se...