US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on Nov. 18 for "Noise shaping successive-approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC)" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,648, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Noise shaping successive-approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC)" was invented by Masashi Kijima (Aichi, Japan) and Rajiv Singh (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A noise-shaping successive-approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) (SAR ADC) including a noise-shaping (NS) filter, a comparator, a differential input path between the NS filter and the comparator, and a cross-coupled set of capacitive elements coupled to the differential input path."

The patent was filed on July 25, 2023, under...