ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,000, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Internal clock monitoring using external clock provided by communication interface" was invented by Georg Kaffl (Prutting, Germany), Benjamin Kollmitzer (Portschach am Worther See, Austria) and Ahsan Ali (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) includes an internal clock source configured to generate an internal clock signal; a communication interface configured to receive an external clock signal from an external clock source and a communication frame signal that signals a communication frame during which data com...