ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,242, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Reconfigurable analog-to-digital converter" was invented by Kannan Aryaperumal Sankaragomathi (Waterloo, Canada) and Johan Peter Vanderhaegen (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes apparatuses, methods, and techniques that enable a computing device to support a dynamic range of audio quality, varying bandwidths, varying sampling rates, numerous effective number of bits (ENOBs) resolutions, conserve power during an overall usage of the computing device, and enhance a user experience. To do so, the computing device utilize...