US Patent Issued to Nordic Semiconductor ASA on June 30 for "Synchronizer circuit" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,844, issued on June 30, was assigned to Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Trondheim, Norway).

"Synchronizer circuit" was invented by Sergio Nicolas Deligiannis (Farnham, Great Britain) and Robert Jackson (Farnham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit portion receives, at a synchroniser, a signal clocked at a first frequency and outputs a synchronised signal clocked at a second frequency to a bounce-rejection circuit portion. The bounce-rejection circuit portion operates on a plurality of successive samples of the synchronised signal and outputs an output signal. The bounce-rejection circuit portion: changes the output signa...