US Patent Issued to Kepler Computing on Oct. 21 for "Mismatch shaping apparatus and method for binary coded digital-to-analog converters" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,895, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"Mismatch shaping apparatus and method for binary coded digital-to-analog converters" was invented by Jyotindra R. Shakya (Corvallis, Ore.) and Gabor C. Temes (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a mismatch shaping technique applied in digital-to-analog converters (DACs) for high pass filtering mismatch related errors. The mismatch shaping scheme is based on a zero mean error encoding technique, which can be applied directly to binary coded signals, without the use for binary to thermometer decoding and element shuffling. In ...