US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) on July 1 for "Time to digital converter" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,834, issued on July 1, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Ltd. (Marlow, Great Britain).

"Time to digital converter" was invented by Neale Dutton (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and John Kevin Moore (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method includes: receiving a first plurality of digital codes from a time-to-digital converter (TDC); generating a coarse histogram from the first plurality of digital codes; detecting a peak coarse bin from the plurality of coarse bins; after receiving the first plurality of digital codes, receiving a second plurality of digital codes from the ...