ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,265, issued on March 31, was assigned to SWABIAN INSTRUMENTS GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Apparatus for timestamp processing" was invented by Markus Wick (Plochingen, Germany), Helmut Fedder (Stuttgart, Germany) and Michael Schlagmuller (Ditzingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus for processing timestamps generated by two or more time-to-digital converters (TDCs) that comprises: at least two TDCs, a reference clock, a counter and a stream generator that output a timestamp data stream (TD #1), a first input signal that is periodic or quasi periodic, a second input signal, an electronic circuit or ...