US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on June 24 for "Unit capacitor-based ramp analog-to-digital converter" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,527, issued on June 24, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Unit capacitor-based ramp analog-to-digital converter" was invented by Lukas Kull (Cham, Switzerland), Thomas H. Toifl (Gattikon, Switzerland) and Danny Chen-Hsien Luu (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to operate an analog to digital converter. The method may storing a sampled signal of an input voltage on capacitors, of an up ramp generator and of a down ramp generator to obtain a sampled signal, enabling one of the up ramp generator and the down ramp generator based on a sign of the sampled signal, detecting, on the capacitors, a zero c...