ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,455, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Circuit for determining the frequency of a signal" was invented by Wei Wang (Munich), Michael Augustin (Villach, Austria), Jurgen Schafer (Oberhaching, Germany), Dietmar Konig (Munich), Josef Niederl (Klagenfurt, Austria) and Shane O'Neill (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to various embodiments, a circuit for determining the frequency of a signal is described, comprising an input configured to receive an analog input signal, an analog to digital converter configured to convert the analog input signal to a digital input signa...