US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, MIRISE Tehcnologies on July 15 for "Delta-sigma modulator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,762, issued on July 15, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Tehcnologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).

"Delta-sigma modulator" 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: "A delta-sigma modulator includes a capacitively-coupled amplifier, a first integrator, a second integrator, a quantizer, a first switch, a second switch, and a control circuit. The first switch is connected between an input of the capacitively-coupled amplifier and a sampling capacitor of the capacitively-coupled a...