ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,490, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"System and method for reconfigurable hybrid analog-to-digital converter (ADC)" was invented by Jie Fang (Austin, Texas), Frank Singor (Austin, Texas), Hongjie Zhu (Austin, Texas), Chaoming Zhang (Austin, Texas) and Brian Caldona (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a first analog-to-digital converter (ADC) of a first type electrically coupled by a plurality of switches to a plurality of ADCs of a second type. The plurality of switches may be configured to select, based on a rate of an analog-to-digital ...