ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,074, issued on July 29, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Comparator systems and methods" was invented by Antonino Conte (Tremestieri Etneo, Italy), Marco Ruta (San Gregorio di Catania, Italy), Michelangelo Pisasale (Catania, Italy), Agatino Massimo Maccarrone (Regalbuto, Italy) and Francesco Tomaiuolo (Acireale, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system a ring oscillator configured to produce a set of clock signals having the same clock period and a mutual time delay between respective clock signal edges. Comparator circuits are coupled to first and second input nodes and produce a set of compar...