ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,307, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Elastic buffers" was invented by Arindam Dasgupta (Bangalore, India), Ranjan Kumar Sahoo (Bangalore, India) and Anand Shirwal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastic buffer module includes: a memory unit configured as an array of memory elements; a write index control module that specifies a range of the memory elements into which a write word from a sequence of input words within input data is to be written into the memory unit; and a read index control module that specifies a range of the memory elements from which a read word is to be read f...