US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on May 27 for "Gated ring oscillator linearization" (Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,014, issued on May 27, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Gated ring oscillator linearization" was invented by Marius Moe (Fetsund, Norway), Tarjei Aaberge (Nesoya, Norway) and Bijit Patel (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for an apparatus comprising a time-to-digital converter (TDC) and a processor coupled to the TDC. In some examples, the TDC may be configured to receive a signal and generate a measurement result indicating a time between start and stop events of the signal. The processor may be configured to receive the measurement result, compare the measurement result t...