US Patent Issued to Cirrus Logic on Jan. 20 for "Non-linear function in an early-sampled hybrid multi-level converter amplifier system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,526, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Non-linear function in an early-sampled hybrid multi-level converter amplifier system" was invented by John L. Melanson (Austin, Texas), Abhishek Mukherjee (Austin, Texas), Lingli Zhang (Austin, Texas) and Zhaohui He (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include an analog loop filter comprising a plurality of analog integrators, the analog loop filter configured to receive an analog signal input and a feedback output signal, at least one sampler for sampling outputs of the analog integrators, a second loop filter coupled between an output...