ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,537, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Analog-to-digital conversion apparatus and method having dynamic gain compensation mechanism" was invented by Kai-Yue Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wei-Jyun Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses an analog-to-digital conversion apparatus. A first stage conversion circuit receives an analog input signal to generate a digital conversion result. A second stage conversion circuit calculates an analog residue between the analog input signal and the digital conversion result and feeds a pseudo-noise to generate...