ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,829, issued on June 23, was assigned to Alphacore Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Closed-loop sampling methods and systems" was invented by Sachin Namboodiri (Tempe, Ariz.) and Phaneendra Bikkina (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a sampling system and a method for sampling are disclosed. In an embodiment, a sampling system includes a sampler array that includes sampling cells, a timing controller connected to the sampler array to form a closed loop and configured to correct a timing mismatch in the sampler array, and a time to digital converter (TDC) configured to perform indexing of the sampling cells in the sampler ...