US Patent Issued to Skyworks Solutions on Oct. 7 for "Using time-to-digital converters to delay signals with high accuracy and large range" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,504, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Using time-to-digital converters to delay signals with high accuracy and large range" was invented by Krishnan Balakrishnan (Austin, Texas) and James David Barnette (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system delays input clock signals using time-to-digital converters (TDCs) to convert edges or the clock signals to digital values and storing the digital values in a memory. The digital values are retrieved from the memory based on a desired delay. A time counter used by the TDCs to determine the edges is also used determine the delay. The accur...