US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on May 27 for "Continuous-time delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,340, issued on May 27, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Continuous-time delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter" was invented by Daniel Canniff (Brookline, Mass.) and Mariana Tosheva Markova (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes an ADC with a continuous time integrator. The continuous time integrator includes an amplifier having an amplifier input and an amplifier output, a capacitor coupled between the amplifier input and the amplifier output, and a resistor. The resistor provides a first current for an integr...