ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,110, issued on June 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Clock domain transfer interface for high bandwidth data transfer using event transfer blocks" was invented by Eric Wayne Mahurin (Austin, Texas), Hitesh Kumar Gupta (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Francisco Perez (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock domain crossing interface is described. The clock domain crossing interface includes a transmit clock domain and a receive clock domain using a different clock from the transmit clock domain. The clock domain crossing interface also includes a first-in-first-out (FIFO) buffer coupled between the transmit clock domain...