US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 29 for "Time to digital converter (TDC) circuit with self-adaptive time granularity and related methods" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,385, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Time to digital converter (TDC) circuit with self-adaptive time granularity and related methods" was invented by Ping Lu (Cary, N.C.) and Minhan Chen (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-to-digital converter (TDC) circuit generates a digital output indicating a time, known as a phase difference, from a phase of the generated signal to a corresponding phase of a reference signal. The digital output is used by the digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) to correct for the phase/frequency difference to synchronize the generated sig...