US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 22 for "DAC INL compensation through thermometer segment tuning" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,449, issued on July 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"DAC INL compensation through thermometer segment tuning" was invented by Martin Cochet (South Salem, N.Y.) and John Francis Bulzacchelli (Somers, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for compensating segmented DAC intrinsic INL by adjusting the relative strength of DAC thermometer segments. In the method, the strength of each thermometer segment is adjusted sequentially to reduce INL to 0 at one point on each thermometer code range. The strength of the binary section is also adjusted to further reduce INL while conserving...