ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,229, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"AD conversion device" was invented by Takashi Kuwahara (Tokyo) and Yoshihiro Akeboshi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AD conversion device includes an AD converter that outputs an analog signal as sampling data for every sampling point based on a sampling frequency, a controller, and a storage circuit, the controller includes a buffer memory which temporarily stores the sampling data from the AD converter in time series and from which the sampling data is read out in time series, and a decimation controller, the decimation controller outputs a write-...