ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,596, issued on June 23, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Clock buffer circuit with improved transition times" was invented by Harish Eleendram (Tirupati, India) and Anand Kumar Sinha (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter circuit, usable in a clock buffer circuit, includes a main inverter stage having a first transistor of a first conductivity type coupled in series with a second transistor of a second conductivity type, wherein control electrodes of the first and second transistors are coupled to an input node and first current electrodes of the first and second transistors are coupled at an outp...