G06F 1/10
Distribution of clock signals
Official title: Distribution of clock signals {, e.g. skew}
G06F1/10 (Distribution of clock signals) appears on 3,606 US grants and 2,984 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 3,606
- Published applications
- 2,984
- Assignees
- 885
- Inventors
- 6,338
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 2 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985 | 6 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 6 | 0 |
| 1988 | 3 | 0 |
| 1989 | 19 | 0 |
| 1990 | 12 | 0 |
| 1991 | 13 | 0 |
| 1992 | 21 | 0 |
| 1993 | 15 | 0 |
| 1994 | 27 | 0 |
| 1995 | 39 | 0 |
| 1996 | 47 | 0 |
| 1997 | 40 | 0 |
| 1998 | 65 | 0 |
| 1999 | 80 | 0 |
| 2000 | 90 | 0 |
| 2001 | 98 | 35 |
| 2002 | 99 | 78 |
| 2003 | 115 | 127 |
| 2004 | 97 | 119 |
| 2005 | 83 | 99 |
| 2006 | 112 | 96 |
| 2007 | 92 | 97 |
| 2008 | 85 | 93 |
| 2009 | 78 | 73 |
| 2010 | 98 | 72 |
| 2011 | 86 | 91 |
| 2012 | 87 | 72 |
| 2013 | 112 | 100 |
| 2014 | 120 | 137 |
| 2015 | 123 | 117 |
| 2016 | 144 | 147 |
| 2017 | 150 | 102 |
| 2018 | 95 | 107 |
| 2019 | 164 | 162 |
| 2020 | 179 | 142 |
| 2021 | 175 | 167 |
| 2022 | 169 | 159 |
| 2023 | 154 | 171 |
| 2024 | 176 | 138 |
| 2025 | 136 | 113 |
| 2026 | 80 | 170 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Clock sync input dropout protection6 Oct 2026US 12,756,172 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Double-data rate transmission within a system-on-chip via network-on-chip interconnects6 Oct 2026US 12,756,532 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Reliable and fault-tolerant clock generation and distribution for chiplet-based waferscale processors29 Sep 2026US 12,748,454 B2The Regents of the University of California
- Implementing rational clock crossing in a distributed system29 Sep 2026US 12,748,455 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Recycling charge between clock nets29 Sep 2026US 12,748,717 B2Auradine, Inc.
- Clock forwarding in packaged optics links8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312713 A1Lightmatter, Inc.
- Clock-to-data synchronization1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299641 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Clock distribution gating1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303066 A1Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Clock signal distribution system, integrated circuit device and method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288195 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Buffer circuit, and semiconductor apparatus capable of adjusting a clock receiver and/or changing a clock path according to frequency information10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267370 A1SK hynix Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and circuitry for minimizing clock-data skew in a bus system385US 5,432,823 ARambus Inc. · 1995
- Synchronizing system between function blocks arranged in hierarchical structures and large scale integrated circuit using the same350US 5,867,691 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1999
- Bus system optimization316US 6,643,787 B1Rambus Inc. · 2003
- Clock distribution network308US 6,125,217 AIntel Corporation · 2000
- Method and apparatus for distributing an optical clock in an integrated circuit289US 5,889,903 AIntel Corporation · 1999