ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,307, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Return to open DAC with resistor bypass on reset" was invented by Selcuk Ersoy (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Dobson Paul Parlindungan Simanjuntak (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Robert van Veldhoven (Valkenswaard, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog to digital circuit that includes a feedback circuit with a return to open (RTO), digital to analog converter (DAC) that provides an analog signal that is indicative of an output of an ADC component of the ADC. During a data phase, the output of the DAC is provided to a combiner input through a resistiv...