ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,465, issued on July 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Low noise inverter-based voltage-to-time converter with common mode input tracking" was invented by Amy Whitcombe (Saratoga, Calif.), Somnath Kundu (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Brent R. Carlton (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A differential voltage-to-time converter (VTC) architecture and method of providing VTC signals are disclosed. The VTC includes a ramp generator that generates a ramp voltage, capacitors having a bottom plate coupled with the ramp generator to receive the ramp voltage, and inverters having inputs coupled to top plates of the capaci...