US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on Aug. 5 for "Current-mode analog-to-digital converter systems, devices and methods for multi-sensing" (Irish, Ukrainian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,569, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Current-mode analog-to-digital converter systems, devices and methods for multi-sensing" was invented by Andriy Maharyta (Lviv, Ukraine), Oleksandr Karpin (Lviv, Ukraine), Paul Walsh (Cork, Ireland) and Mark Healy (County Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device can include analog circuits formed with a substrate, including a comparator, analog switches, and a balance current circuit. A sensor current and balance current can be applied at an input of the comparator. The sensor current, balance current or both can be modulated with a sw...