ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,094, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamic spread-spectrum-clocking control" was invented by Ehud Shoor (Haifa, Israel), Tsion Vidal (Jerusalem), Vladislav Kopzon (Haifa, Israel), Uri Hermoni (Nordia, Israel), Golan Cohen (Even-Yehuda, Israel), Efraim Kugman (Givat Zeev, Israel) and Ziv Kabiry (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The circuits and methods described herein provide technical solutions for technical problems facing USB links. To reduce or eliminate effects associated with a USB link entering a low-power mode, initial link acquisition may be performed while the spread-sp...