ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,187, issued on March 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Linear approximation of a complex number magnitude" was invented by Shailesh Joshi (Bangalore, India), Karthik Subburaj (Bangalore, India) and Karthik Ramasubramanian (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a comparison circuit and a calculation circuit coupled to the comparison circuit. The comparison circuit is configured to receive a first digital input value (X) and a second digital input value (Y), and provide a first digital output value that indicates one of a first relationship, a second relationship, and a third relationshi...