US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 25 for "Successive approximation register (SAR) analog- to-digital converter (ADC) with input-dependent least significant bit (LSB) size" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,621, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Successive approximation register (SAR) analog- to-digital converter (ADC) with input-dependent least significant bit (LSB) size" was invented by Behnam Sedighi (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatus for successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) with variable resolution. One example SAR ADC is generally configured to convert an analog input signal to a digital output signal, wherein a quantization size of a least significant bit (LSB) associated with the digital output signal is configured to depe...