ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,969, issued on April 22, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Time-interleaved analog to digital converter based on control of counter" was invented by Shih-Hsiung Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-interleaved analog to digital converter includes capacitor array circuits, first and second transfer circuits, a fine converter circuitry, a control circuitry, and an encoder circuit. The capacitor array circuits sample an input signal and generate first residues according to first quantization signals. The first and second transfer circuits transfer first and second residues respectivel...