US Patent Issued to Synopsys on May 12 for "Pointer information encoded in weighted increment signals" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,739, issued on May 12, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Pointer information encoded in weighted increment signals" was invented by Alan Stewart Geist (Gladstone, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example non-transitory computer readable medium includes stored instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to convert an input clockwide pulse received from an upstream circuit running in a first clock domain into an output clockwide pulse that is synchronized to a second clock domain. The instructions further cause the processor to advance a count in response to the output clockwide pulse th...