ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,241, issued on July 1, was assigned to Joulwatt Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Successive approximation analog-to-digital converter, analog-to-digital conversion method and device applying in the same" was invented by Yang Cheng (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog-to-digital converter includes a D/A conversion circuit, a comparator, and a logic control module. An input signal is sampled and held to obtain a sampling signal. The D/A conversion circuit receives the sampling signal and a reference voltage signal, and an output terminal of the D/A conversion circuit outputs a first voltage signal. The output...