US Patent Issued to NXP USA on Nov. 3 for "Buffer compatible with skew critical protocols implemented in an integrated circuit and methods for routing metal lines to the buffer in the integrated circuit" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,780, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Buffer compatible with skew critical protocols implemented in an integrated circuit and methods for routing metal lines to the buffer in the integrated circuit" was invented by Gaurav Agarwal (Noida, India), Himanshu Mangal (Agra, India), Siddhartha Jain (Noida, India), Sachin Kalra (Indirapuram, India) and Amol Agarwal (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buffer in an integrated circuit comprises one or more logic circuits, an input signal pin electrically coupled to an input of one of the one or more logic circuits, and an output signal pin electrically ...