US Patent Issued to MediaTek on May 27 for "High-speed successive-approximation register analog-to-digital converter" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,338, issued on May 27, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"High-speed successive-approximation register analog-to-digital converter" was invented by Pang-Yen Chin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Hsin Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Kuan-Ta Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-speed successive-approximation register analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) is shown. A digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a comparator, and a SAR logic circuit are configured to form a loop for successive approximation of a digital representation of an analog input. The SAR logic circuit includes a plurality of latches. Each latch uses...