US Patent Issued to AMS INTERNATIONAL on June 3 for "Time-to-digital converter" (Austrian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,137, issued on June 3, was assigned to AMS INTERNATIONAL AG (Jona, Switzerland).

"Time-to-digital converter" was invented by Robert Kappel (Wettmannstatten, Austria), Daniel Furrer (Gebenstorf, Switzerland), Manfred Lueger (Preding, Austria), Yiming Jiang (Graz, Austria), Hesong Xu (Rueschlikon, Switzerland) and Daniele Perenzoni (Adliswil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-to-digital converter circuit is disclosed, the time-to-digital converter circuit including a plurality of delay stages connected to form a delay line, a plurality of event counters, an encoder circuit for triggering the delay line, and a binning cir...