ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,547, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc. (Westerville, Ohio).

"Ranging systems and methods for decreasing transitive effects in multi-range materials measurements" was invented by Houston Fortney (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement system includes a gain chain configured to amplify an analog input signal; a range selector configured to select a gain between the analog input signal and a plurality of analog-to-digital converter (ADC) outputs from a plurality of ADCs, wherein each ADC output has a path, and a gain of each output path is made up of a plurality of gain stages in the g...