US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 4 for "Alias rejection in analog-to-digital converters (ADCs)" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,322, issued on March 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Alias rejection in analog-to-digital converters (ADCs)" was invented by Behnam Sedighi (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatus for alias rejection in analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), in which only a portion of the ADC is operated at a higher sampling rate than other portions of the ADC, thereby preventing aliasing, but saving power. One example ADC circuit generally includes a first circuit portion configured to operate at a first clock rate equal to a sampling rate of the ADC circuit; and a second circuit portion configured to o...