ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,720, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Adaptive step delay in peripheral trigger generator" was invented by Avinash Halageri (Bangalore, India) and Swathi G. Bhat (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Peripheral Trigger Generator (PTG) for generating signals adaptively responsive to time-driven events based on execution run time. A variable PTG step delay, such as a "wait for software trigger" command, may provide an adaptive step delay between the output trigger commands. An adaptive step delay may use a combination of PTG Command+Control Bit in PTG Special Function Registe...