ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,550, issued on July 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for global to local clock compensation" was invented by Ariel Elad Avital (Kiryat Bialik, Israel) and Yossi Ben Simon (Karmiel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock source outputs a clock signal. A first delay line receives a first clock source signal and produces a first output, the first clock source signal at least partially based on the clock signal. A first clock spine receives the first output and produces a global reference clock signal. A second delay line receives a second clock source signal and produces a second output...