ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,685, issued on April 21, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Clock modulation schemes in integrated circuits" was invented by Arun Iyer (Hyderabad, India), Chirag Ravishankar (Erie, Colo.) and Dinesh D. Gaitonde (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) includes a clock modulation circuitry including a delay hierarchy circuitry coupled to the register, the delay hierarchy circuitry configured to receive a clock (CLK) signal, provide a delayed master clock (CLKM) signal to a master latch of the register, and provide a delayed slave clock (CLKS) signal to a slave latch of the register."

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