ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,781, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Timing calibration techniques for discrete-time circuits" was invented by Huseyin Dinc (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Ahmed Mohamed Abdelatty Ali (Oak Ridge, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include methods for operating discrete time circuits. A method in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure may comprise sampling a first amplitude of a signal at a first time, sampling a second amplitude of the signal at a second time, comparing the first amplitude to the second amplitude, and adjusting a sampling time of the...