US Patent Issued to NXP on Nov. 25 for "DAC and ADC using MMT devices" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,258, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"DAC and ADC using MMT devices" was invented by Anirban Roy (Austin, Texas), Mark Douglas Hall (Austin, Texas), Tushar Praful Merchant (Austin, Texas) and Maryfe Hernandez (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit DAC device and fabrication method are provided with a linear bias ladder circuit which generates a plurality of bias voltages, an inverting operational amplifier configured to generate an analog output voltage in response to an input current signal, and a plurality of MMT devices connected between the linear bias ladder circ...