ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,767, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to implement delay lines and analog to digital converters" was invented by Srikanth Manian (Bangalore, India), Anant Kamath (Bangalore, India) and Rohan Regi (Gurugram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes: a first delay buffer having a clock input, a bias input coupled to a delay control input, a reset input, and an output; a second delay buffer having a clock input coupled to the output of the first delay buffer, a bias input coupled to the delay control input, a reset input, and an output; and a counter hav...