US Patent Issued to Asahi Kasei Microdevices on Dec. 16 for "Integrator and delta-sigma modulator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,603, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corp. (Tokyo).

"Integrator and delta-sigma modulator" was invented by Kazuma Ohara (Tokyo) and Yuichi Miyahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an integrator including: a first order delay unit which outputs an output signal obtained by delaying a signal in accordance with an input signal; a first feedback unit which generates a first feedback signal in accordance with the output signal; a second feedback unit which generates a second feedback signal in accordance with the output signal; an addition and subtraction unit which adds and subtracts th...