ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,259, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Metastability error detection and BER improvement technique in pipelined ADCs" was invented by Neeraj Shrivastava (Bangalore, India), Visvesvaraya Appala Pentakota (Bangalore, India), Sai Vikas Kandimalla (Nalgonda, India), Samriddh Bhalla (Mhow, India), Abhijith N (Mangaluru, India) and Prabhansh Pandey (Singrauli, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a system includes a pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC) having a main path and an auxiliary path. The main path includes a first stage having a sampling switch, a flash ADC having an input ...