ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,062, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Method and apparatus for matched buffer decompression" was invented by Stephen Phillip Savage (Richardson, Texas) and Harsh Dinesh Jhaveri (Wylie, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a first clock having a first clock output and a second clock having a second clock output. The circuit also includes a first buffer having a first buffer input, a second buffer input, and a first buffer output, the second buffer input coupled to the first clock output and a second buffer having a third buffer input, a fourth buffer input, and a second buffer out...