US Patent Issued to Disruptive Technologies Research AS on March 11 for "Delay element circuit for ring oscillator and stall detection utilized in self-clocked SAR ADC" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,000, issued on March 11, was assigned to Disruptive Technologies Research AS (Lysaker, Norway).

"Delay element circuit for ring oscillator and stall detection utilized in self-clocked SAR ADC" was invented by Bjornar Hernes (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-clocked SAR ADC sensor circuit includes an ADC having a capacitor array with a plurality of capacitors connected through a respective plurality of switches, a comparator, an SAR module, and a delay element circuit for ring oscillator and stall detection. The delay element circuit includes a delay block with a NAND gate followed by a plurality of inverters."...