US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, MIRISE Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Analog-to-digital converter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,551, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).

"Analog-to-digital converter" was invented by Shotaro Wada (Nisshin, Japan), Tomohiro Nezuka (Nisshin, Japan) and Yoshikazu Furuta (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog-to-digital converter includes an input-signal chopping switch, an integrator, an output chopping switch, a quantizer, and a feedback switch. The integrator is located after the input-signal chopping switch. The integrator includes an operational amplifier, an integral capacitor, and an integral-capaci...