ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,141, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Voltage-to-delay converter" was invented by Sai Vikas Kandimalla (Nalgonda, India), Neeraj Shrivastava (Bangalore, India), Visvesvaraya Appala Pentakota (Bangalore, India) and Keshav Tiwari (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage-to-delay converter includes a first reset transistor having a first terminal coupled to a power supply terminal, a gate terminal receiving a reset signal, and a second terminal coupled to a top plate of a first integrating capacitor, and a second reset transistor having a first terminal coupled to a power supply terminal, a...