G04F 10/005
Time-to-digital converters [tdc]
Official title: {Time-to-digital converters [TDC] (analog-to-digital converters with intermediate conversion to time or phase H03M1/50, H03M1/60)}
G04F10/005 (Time-to-digital converters [tdc]) appears on 726 US grants and 680 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G04F- Granted patents
- 726
- Published applications
- 680
- Assignees
- 270
- Inventors
- 1,257
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 3 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 6 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 3 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 3 | 7 |
| 2004 | 2 | 1 |
| 2005 | 6 | 3 |
| 2006 | 3 | 8 |
| 2007 | 6 | 5 |
| 2008 | 2 | 16 |
| 2009 | 8 | 17 |
| 2010 | 17 | 16 |
| 2011 | 15 | 18 |
| 2012 | 24 | 14 |
| 2013 | 18 | 26 |
| 2014 | 30 | 31 |
| 2015 | 46 | 34 |
| 2016 | 51 | 36 |
| 2017 | 40 | 32 |
| 2018 | 37 | 38 |
| 2019 | 47 | 53 |
| 2020 | 70 | 55 |
| 2021 | 63 | 59 |
| 2022 | 50 | 49 |
| 2023 | 51 | 55 |
| 2024 | 53 | 51 |
| 2025 | 42 | 31 |
| 2026 | 20 | 23 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Time to digital converter (TDC) circuit with self-adaptive time granularity and related methods29 Sep 2026US 12,748,385 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Delay line calibration method22 Sep 2026US 12,743,056 B2Magics Technologies
- 5-PS-resolution waveform-capture-device on a field-programmable gate-array with dynamic phase-shifting8 Sep 2026US 12,730,174 B2Ohio State Innovation Foundation
- Radio transmitter4 Aug 2026US 12,700,928 B2Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.
- Device for accurate measurement of time intervals14 Jul 2026US 12,681,440 B2
- Time-to-digital converter and phase-locked loop circuit8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310139 A1Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
- Transmitter, integrated circuit and method for calibrating output impedance8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312576 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Phase-locked loops (pll), including time-to-digital converter (tdc) gain calibration circuits and related methods13 Aug 2026US 2026/0236374 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Methods and apparatus to calibrate voltage-to-delay conversions6 Aug 2026US 2026/0230045 A1
- Time-to-digital converter and calibration method for performing time-to-digital conversion on input signal23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211376 A1Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Time to digital converter and applications thereof70US 9,639,063 B2STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited · 2017
- Analog-to-digital conversion circuit having a pulse circulating portion69US 5,396,247 ANippondenso Co., Ltd. · 1995
- Time-to-digital converter and method therefor67US 9,419,635 B2Fastree 3D BV · 2016
- Circuit for high-resolution phase detection in a digital RF processor57US 7,205,924 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated · 2007
- Mixed-domain circuit with differential domain-converters55US 10,895,850 B1Si-Ware Systems S.A.E. · 2021