ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,573, issued on March 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Phase aligning multiple channel dividers without stopping VCO root clock" was invented by Madusudanan Srinivasan Gopalan (Issaquah, Wash.), Christopher A. Schell (Tacoma, Wash.) and Robert Karl Butler (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a system includes one or more clock channels on a clock chip, each clock channel configured to provide a clock signal. The system also includes a signal line coupled to the one or more clock channels, the signal line configured to send clock signals to and receive clock signals from each clock channe...