ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,305, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method to move the time of the day (TOD) across asynchronous clock domains with no loss in accuracy" was invented by Paolo Novellini (Gorgonzola, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods to move Time of the Day (TOD) across asynchronous clock domains with no loss in accuracy include receiving time-of-day (TOD) words that are synchronized to a first clock, estimating a phase difference between the first clock and a second clock, sampling the TOD words based on the second clock to provide re-synchronized TOD words that are synchronized to the second clock, whe...