ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,464, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Auto-optimized delay control for die-to-die receiver sampling" was invented by Ping Lu (Cary, N.C.) and Eric Douglas Groen (Ankeny, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delay optimizer includes circuits for detecting delay between the received data and the received clock, such as in an integrated circuit having separate dies coupled to communication via an interconnect that includes a clock channel and a data channel. The electrical characteristics of the clock channel and the data channel (including on-chip buffers) may introduce significa...