US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 15 for "Digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with dynamic stacked cascode switches" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,761, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with dynamic stacked cascode switches" was invented by Xiahan Zhou (San Diego), Haibo Fei (San Diego), Nitz Saputra (Burlingame, Calif.) and Andrew Weil (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) circuit implemented with a dynamic stacked transistor architecture. The DAC circuit generally includes a first current-steering transistor and a second current-steering transistor. The DAC circuit may also include: a first stacked transistor coup...