US Patent Issued to Industrial Technology Research Institute on Feb. 10 for "Digital-to-analog converter and operation method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,194, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Digital-to-analog converter and operation method thereof" was invented by Yung-Hui Chung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yun-Heng Tseng (Yunlin County, Taiwan) and Bo-Wei Chen (Miaoli County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and an operation method thereof are provided. The DAC includes a first operational amplifier (OPA), a second OPA, a resistor circuit, first switches, second switches, a first voltage shift circuit and a second voltage shift circuit. The first OPA outputs a first operating voltage. The s...