ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,425, issued on July 21, was assigned to PROTEANTECS LTD. (Haifa, Israel).

"Die-to-die connectivity monitoring with a clocked receiver" was invented by Eyal Fayneh (Givatayim, Israel), Guy Redler (Haifa, Israel) and Evelyn Landman (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An I/O sensor including: a programmable delay line; a delayed sampling device having the following inputs: (a) a data signal that also serves as an input to a reference clocked receiver that is configured to sample the data signal received from an interconnect lane between two integrated circuits (ICs) of a multi-IC module, and (b) a delayed clock signal received...