ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,209, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Clock-speed control circuit and methods for a dynamic comparator" was invented by Mukul Agarwal (Bengaluru, India) and Subodh Prakash Taigor (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to control a clock speed of a dynamic comparator may include sensing, by a clock speed control circuit, an output of the dynamic comparator to determine at least one failure in the dynamic comparator. Thereafter, the method may include reducing, by the clock speed control circuit, a frequency of a clock signal used to control the clock speed of ...