US Patent Issued to NEC on May 19 for "Clock signal frequency divider, processing system, processing device, and clock signal frequency dividing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,928, issued on May 19, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Clock signal frequency divider, processing system, processing device, and clock signal frequency dividing method" was invented by Atsufumi Shibayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock signal frequency divider according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: an output signal generation circuit configured to generate, from pulses of a received input clock signal, an output clock signal including a repetition of a periodic pattern signal in which a pulse of a mask pulse number is masked among consecutive pulses of a periodic pulse number, the periodic patter...