US Patent Issued to Intel on July 15 for "Time-domain assist for successive approximation ADC" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,759, issued on July 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Time-domain assist for successive approximation ADC" was invented by Amy Whitcombe (Saratoga, Calif.), Asma Beevi Kuriparambil Thekkumpate (Santa Clara, Calif.), Brent R. Carlton (Portland, Ore.) and Chun Lee (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, and method for are provided. A device includes a time-to-digital converter (TDC) situated to convert a time-domain signal to a digital value, a delay circuit situated in parallel with the TDC and to delay the time-domain signal by a specified amount of time resulting in a delayed time-d...