US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 18 for "Clock synchronization in a multichip module" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,783, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Clock synchronization in a multichip module" was invented by Andreas H.A. Arp (Nufringen, Germany), Daniel Mark Dreps (Georgetown, Texas), Douglas J. Malone (Pleasant Valley, N.Y.), Bruce George Rudolph (Rochester, Minn.), Ching Lung Tong (Highland Mills, N.Y.), Glen A. Wiedemeier (Austin, Texas) and Lily Jielu Zhang (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Clock synchronization in a multichip module is provided. Relative clock skews among a plurality of digital devices are detected based on a pairwise exchange of clock signal...