US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 22 for "Energy efficiency using a power saving clock buffer for clock grid-based scanning" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,145, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Energy efficiency using a power saving clock buffer for clock grid-based scanning" was invented by William V. Huott (Holmes, N.Y.), Ann Chen Wu (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Paul Alan Bunce (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Leon Sigal (Monsey, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A local clock buffer for improving energy efficiency using a power saving clock buffer for clock grid-based scanning includes a grid node that receives a global clock signal from a global clock grid; a clock enable latch configured to latch a clock enable signal, wherein the ...