ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,654, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Scheduling analog-to-digital conversions" was invented by Anand Kumar G (Bengaluru, India), Srinivasa BS Chakravarthy (Bangalore, India) and Aniruddha Periyapatna Nagendra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided. In some examples, the method includes receiving, at a sequencer circuit of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a first request to perform a first conversion. In addition, the method includes determining, by the sequencer circuit, that the ADC is not busy. The method further includes responsive to determining that the ADC i...