ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,644, issued on April 15, was assigned to LEN TECH Inc. (Plano, Texas).
"ADC apparatus and control method" was invented by Gonggui Xu (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a high gain input stage configured as an integrator in a successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a clamping and filtering stage configured to clamp a voltage on a high impedance node to a predetermined level approximately equal to a diode voltage drop in a clamping mode of an SAR cycle, and a decision-making stage connected to an output of the clamping and filtering stage."
The patent was filed on June ...