ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,261, issued on May 13, was assigned to INVENSENSE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Adaptive analog to digital converter (ADC) multipath digital microphones" was invented by Michael Perrott (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary multipath digital microphone described herein can comprise exemplary embodiments of adaptive ADC range multipath digital microphones, which allow low power to be achieved for amplifiers or gain stages, as well as for exemplary adaptive ADCs in exemplary multipath digital microphone arrangements described herein, while still providing a high DR digital microphone systems. Further non-limiting embodimen...