ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,556, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Excitation for spectroscopy" was invented by Bassem Ibrahim (Allen, Texas), Branko Majmunovic (Dallas) and David P Magee (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a charge transfer circuit, a control circuit, and a processing circuit. The charge transfer circuit has a first terminal, a second terminal, a third terminal, and a control input. The control circuit has a control output coupled to the control input. The processing circuit has a first input, a second input, and an output. The processing circuit is configured to receive a first...