US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on Aug. 19 for "Analog-to-digital converter method and circuitry with reduced metastability error" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,182, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Analog-to-digital converter method and circuitry with reduced metastability error" was invented by Govert Geelen (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Edward Paulus (Venlo, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for converting an unknown analog voltage to a digital output signal includes receiving the unknown voltage, establishing a first stability threshold to distinguish between stable and metastable measurements of a voltage difference between the unknown voltage and a reference voltage, measuring that difference, determining whether the difference is g...