US Patent Issued to Intel on Dec. 23 for "Method and system for digital background offset correction of a comparator in an analog-to-digital converter" (Austrian, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,488, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and system for digital background offset correction of a comparator in an analog-to-digital converter" was invented by Michael Fulde (Weil, Germany), Harneet Khurana (Cupertino, Calif.), Matteo Camponeschi (Villach, Austria), Patrizia Greco (Villach, Austria), Christian Lindholm (Villach, Austria), Martin Clara (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Giacomo Cascio (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-step analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The ADC includes a sampling circuitry, a comparator, a trimming circuitry, and a DC offset actuator. The sa...