US Patent Issued to Infinera on Sept. 23 for "Polarity dependent offset in analog-to-digital converters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,037, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Infinera Corp..

"Polarity dependent offset in analog-to-digital converters" was invented by Shiva Prasad Kotagiri (San Jose, Calif.) and Fu-Tai An (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing a SAR ADC circuit with improved quantization error. In some implementations, an apparatus includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to receive a set of voltage signals and generate digital representations of signals. The ADC comprises a capacitive digital-to-analog converter...