G04F 10/00
Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by electric means
G04F10/00 (Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by electric means) appears on 1,405 US grants and 1,114 published applications in this corpus.
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Subgroups
Granted patents
- G04F 10/005Time-to-digital converters [tdc]726
- G04F 10/04Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by electric means: by counting pulses193
- G04F 10/10Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by electric means: by measuring electric133
- G04F 10/06Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by electric means: by measuring phase53
- G04F 10/02Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by electric means: using oscillators with6
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