ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,856, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to configure a device using timing" was invented by Win N Maung (Plano, Texas), Richard Edwin Hubbard (Lavon, Texas), Jonathan Lee Valdez (Bedford, Texas), Mark Edward Wentroble (Plano, Texas), Justin Silver (San Jose, Calif.), Anirudh Rustagi (Cupertino, Calif.) and Ashwin Ramachandran (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes: a capacitor having a terminal; comparator circuitry having an input terminal and an output terminal, the input terminal of the comparator circuitry coupled to the terminal of t...