ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,687, issued on April 21, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Integrated circuit with shmoo delay circuit" was invented by Neha Srivastava (Delhi, India), Kumar Abhishek (Bee Cave, Texas) and Nishant Kumar (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first circuit path communicates a first, asynchronous, signal, and a second path communicates a second signal. A schmoo delay circuit receives the first and second signals and includes shmoo control circuitry and a delay generator. The delay generator receives a delay selector signal from the shmoo control circuitry indicative of an amount of delay. The shmoo delay circuit p...