ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,038, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Successive approximation register 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 successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes a plurality of differential capacitive digital-to-analog converters (C-DACs), comparators, and an SAR controller. E...