ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,526, issued on July 14, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Timing synchronization system" was invented by Chengjia Shao (Austin, Texas) and Harihara Subramanian Ranganathan (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Clocking systems are disclosed. A clocking system can include first and second clock domains. Each clock domain can include circuitry with a counter. The clocking system can measure timing errors between these two domains by measuring a phase difference and determining a residual error. Based on the measured timing error, the clocking system can synchronize the time in the first and second c...