ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,339, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Input-adaptive analog-to-digital conversion" was invented by Shashank Rajendra Prasad (Austin, Texas) and Xiaopeng Zhong (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide input-adaptive analog-to-digital conversion in which the number of conversion cycles used to convert an input signal into a digital signal is adapted based on the level (i.e., amplitude) of the input voltage. In certain aspects, the input voltage is compared with one or more threshold voltages, and the number of conversion cycles is determined based on the comparison...