US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on April 15 for "System and methods for sigma-delta modulation" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,652, issued on April 15, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"System and methods for sigma-delta modulation" was invented by Vincent Quiquempoix (Divonne-les-Bains, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for sigma-delta modulation may include an input signal and a plurality of integrators. The output of the integrators and a data input may be input to an adder, the sum output to be input to a quantizer to generate a quantized output signal. A reset input to the first integrator may be asserted during a first sample of the quantized output signal to reduce the signal discontinuity at the inpu...