US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Sept. 9 for "Methods and apparatus to improve performance of voltage to delay converters" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,212, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to improve performance of voltage to delay converters" was invented by Sovan Ghosh (Bengaluru, India) and Visvesvaraya Appala Pentakota (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes programmable circuitry configured to: provide a sample signal, a time amplification (TA) signal, and a kick signal to sample and conversion circuitry; sample a differential signal for a first amount of time-based on the sample signal; charge a first capacitor for a second amount of time-based on the first kick signal; after the...