ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,628, issued on July 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Voltage-to-time converters and methods of operating same" was invented by Jueon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taehyoung Kim (Singapore), Donghyun Yoon (Singapore), Myoungbo Kwak (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaewoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngdon Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Junghwan Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage-to-time converter (VTC) includes: a first inverter electrically connected between a first node, to which a clock signal is applied, and a se...