ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,193, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Modulo-based analog-to-digital conversion apparatus and method" was invented by Luis Garcia Ordonez (Boulogne Billancourt, France), Maxime Guillaud (Boulogne Billancourt, France), Ganghua Yang (Shanghai), Paul Ferrand (Boulogne Billancourt, France), Melissa Duarte Gelvez (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and Xu Li (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modulo-based ADC implementation is provided and involves converting an input analog signal into phases of other M periodic analog reference signals based on one or more transfer functions,...