US Patent Issued to Renesas Design (UK) on June 23 for "Asynchronous finite state machine circuit" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,004, issued on June 23, was assigned to Renesas Design (UK) Ltd. (Bourne End, Great Britain).

"Asynchronous finite state machine circuit" was invented by John William Kesterson (Central Point, Ore.), David Lloyd (Bristol, Great Britain), James Crawford Steele (Chandler, Ariz.), Robert Waterworth (Bristol, Great Britain) and Danil Sokolov (Newcastle Upon Tyne, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asynchronous finite state machine circuit comprising state circuitry configured to be in one of a plurality of states, and transition between states, wherein the asynchronous finite state machine is configured to detect that a curr...