ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,999, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Systems and techniques for clock doubling" was invented by Fabien Funfrock (Munich), Elena Cabrera Bernal (Munich), Suhas Shivapakash (Munich) and Jens Polney (Feldkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for clock doubling are described. A clock adjustment circuit may receive as inputs two clock signals that each have the same frequency and different phases and may generate a clock signal with a higher frequency than the two clock signal inputs. A duty cycle monitor may monitor and support correction of a shift in t...