US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 16 for "Analog-to-digital conversion with bit skipping functionality" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,303, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Analog-to-digital conversion with bit skipping functionality" was invented by Monodeep Kar (New York), Ankur Agrawal (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Mingu Kang (Old Tappan, N.J.) and Kyu-Hyoun Kim (Chappaqua, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing analog-to-digital conversion are described. For example, a method performs an analog-to-digital conversion of an analog input to a digital output including a set of bits, the set of bits including a most significant bit and one or more additional bits, the analog-to-digital conversion ...