US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on Dec. 2 for "Single clock delay step in multi-stage switched-capacitor delays" (Kansas, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,434, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Single clock delay step in multi-stage switched-capacitor delays" was invented by Benjamin Magstadt (Kansas City, Mo.) and Travis Forbes (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable delay device providing a delay resolution of less than 1 ns and a maximum delay of less than100 ns over a broad bandwidth is disclosed. The device includes an input stage with M sampling switched capacitor elements, reducing the sampling rate by M. The device includes a programmable delay stage with M programmable swi...