ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,720, issued on March 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to reduce retimer latency and jitter" was invented by Ani Xavier (Bangalore, India) and Jagannathan Venkataraman (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes: interleaving circuitry including a data input, a plurality of data outputs, and a plurality of clock inputs, the data input coupled to the received data input and each of the plurality of clock inputs coupled to one of the plurality of receiver clock outputs; and handoff circuitry coupled to the interleaving circuitry, the handoff circuitry including:...