ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,549, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).
"Apparatuses and methods for efficient shuffling in a digital to analog converter" was invented by Enrique Alvarez Fontecilla (Encinitas, Calif.) and Paul Wilkins (Weston, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include receiving a digital input signal having an identified value, determining a number of a plurality of converters, determining, based on the identified value and the number, a minimum number of one or more minimum output configurations, parsing the digital input into a plurality of individual bits, and transmitti...