ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,616, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Receiver, operation method thereof, and memory device" was invented by Jueon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taehyoung Kim (Singapore), Donghyun Yoon (Singapore), Myoungbo Kwak (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaewoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngdon Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Junghwan Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver includes a voltage-to-time converter configured to sequentially output a first converted signal and a second converted signal based on a first signal,...