ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,624, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Large programmable delay at high frequency through aliasing" was invented by Travis Forbes (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable alias delay device providing output in a desired frequency band a maximum delay of less than5 ns over a broad bandwidth and at a high frequency is disclosed. The device includes an input bandpass filter and an input stage with M sampling switched capacitor elements, reducing the sampling rate by M. The device includes a programmable delay stage with M programma...