US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 2 for "ADC architecture with non-uniform quantization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,455, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"ADC architecture with non-uniform quantization" was invented by Utkarsh Sharma (Los Angeles), Gokce Gurun (San Jose, Calif.) and Sanjeev K. Maheshwari (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ADC with non-uniform quantization is disclosed. A SAR ADC includes a comparator configured to generate, during successive clock cycles, respective comparison signals based on an analog input signal and a corresponding offset voltage. The SAR ADC further includes a digital logic circuit configured to store values of the respective comparison signals for corresponding...