ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,764, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Timing signal diagnostic system" was invented by Colin Montgomery (Mountain View, Calif.), Per Henrik Fremrot (Novato, Calif.) and Maunish Shah (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A timing signal diagnostic system includes a chassis housing an input system that receives a timing signal, a timing system that receives the timing signal from the input system, an analog-to-digital converter system that receives the timing signal from the input system, and a processing system that is coupled to the timing system and the analog-to-digital converter sys...