ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,563, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Linearization of delay domain analog-to-digital converters" was invented by Mishab I (Manjeri, India), Viswanathan Nagarajan (Bangalore, India), Himanshu Varshney (Bangalore, India), Mujammil Patel (Mumbai, India) and Karan Vaity (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delay-domain analog-to-digital converter (ADC) including first and second ADCs and corresponding look-up table (LUT) memories. Control logic controls the first ADC to convert a first analog level plus a first offset to a first digital value; controls the second ADC to convert the first a...