ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,419, issued on June 30, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Processing method, asynchronous circuit, and logic circuit" was invented by Toshihiko Katou (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tadaaki Tanimoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: causing a computer to perform first processing for identifying one or a plurality of flip-flop circuits each forming a self-feedback loop from among a plurality of flip-flop circuits in a synchronous circuit, deleting a feedback path in the self-feedback loop, identifying two or more...