ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,716, issued on May 6, was assigned to Anokiwave Inc. (San Diego).

"Time-to-digital converter using voltage as a representation of time offset" was invented by Kartik Sridharan (San Diego), Jun Li (San Diego), Eythan Familier (San Diego), Gaurav Menon (San Marcos, Calif.), Shamsun Nahar (San Diego), Akhil Garlapati (San Diego), Scott Humphreys (Greensboro, N.C.) and Antonio Geremia (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-to-digital converter (TDC) uses voltage as a representation of time offset. A voltage change is induced over a time period from a start signal to a stop signal. The final voltage is then measured, and the vol...