US Patent Issued to IMEC VZW on July 22 for "Slope analog-to-digital converter, a system and a method for converting an analog input signal to a digital representation" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,451, issued on July 22, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).

"Slope analog-to-digital converter, a system and a method for converting an analog input signal to a digital representation" was invented by Ewout Martens (Heverlee, Belgium) and Jan Craninckx (Boutersem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slope analog-to-digital converter, ADC, for converting an analog input signal to a digital representation, said slope ADC comprising: a comparator configured to compare two input signals, wherein a sampled value of the analog input signal and a slope signal are used in forming the two input signals; a memory element, which is...