US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on April 15 for "A/D converter and sensor system including the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,647, issued on April 15, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"A/D converter and sensor system including the same" was invented by Jun'ichi Naka (Osaka, Japan) and Koji Obata (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A D/A converting unit generates a comparative voltage corresponding to a target bit falling within a range from a most significant bit through a least significant bit. A comparator determines a value of the target bit by comparing a differential voltage between an output signal of an input switching unit and a comparative voltage generated by the D/A converting unit with a...