ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,688, issued on March 31, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Signal transmission through long delay lines" was invented by Krishna Thakur (Gautam Budh Nagar, India), Deependra Kumar Jain (Noida, India), Devesh Pratap Singh (Bijnor, India) and Akshay Thakur (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for transmitting signals through long delay lines are discussed. In some embodiments, a delay line may include: (i) a first delay element comprising: a first input terminal, a first output terminal, and a first reset terminal; and (ii) a second delay element comprising: a second input terminal coupled to ...