ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,711, issued on April 21, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Analog-to-digital converter with an over-range stage" was invented by Rishi Soundararajan (Bengaluru, India), Visvesvaraya Appala Pentakota (Bengaluru, India), Sai Vikas Kandimalla (Nalgonda, India), Neeraj Shrivastava (Bengaluru, India) and Eeshan Miglani (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes: a time-domain ADC core; and a calibration circuit. The time-domain ADC core includes: a first delay-to-digital stage having a terminal; a second delay-to-digital stage having a terminal; a third delay-to-digital ...