US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 8 for "Low power and area clock monitoring circuit using ring delay arrangement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,148, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Low power and area clock monitoring circuit using ring delay arrangement" was invented by Kedar Rajpathak (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Tezaswi Raja (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuitry and a method of operating a clock monitoring circuit for monitoring a clock signal is disclosed. The method comprises generating a train of pulses corresponding to a duration of respective phases of a clock signal, counting a number of pulses in respective generated pulse trains, determining (using the number of pulses) when durations of subsequent phases...