ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,711, issued on March 31, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).
"Asynchronous analog to digital converter" was invented by Venkatesh Kadlimatti (Hubli, India) and Rinu Mathew (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In described examples, an integrated circuit (IC) includes multiple subcircuits. The subcircuits include a first subcircuit that receives a current and sinks a portion of the current that is responsive to a threshold. In response to the current being greater than the threshold, the first subcircuit provides a difference between the current and the portion to a second subcircuit and asserts a signal corr...