US Patent Issued to NXP on July 1 for "System and method of digital to analog conversion using dynamic element matching" (French, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,696, issued on July 1, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and method of digital to analog conversion using dynamic element matching" was invented by Paul Wielage (Waalre, Netherlands), Ayoub Rifai (Toulouse, France) and Dominique Delbecq (Fonsorbes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic element matching system including sequential register groups, decode circuitry, and pointer control circuitry. Each register group includes at least two registers. The decode circuitry controls a state of each register group based on a level of a digital input signal, a relative position with respect to a begin pointer...