ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,945, issued on June 17, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Time-interleaved analog to digital converter based on flash analog to digital conversion" 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 (ADC) includes capacitor array circuits, a flash ADC, first and second circuits, a converter, and an encoder circuit. The capacitor array circuits sample an input signal and generate first residue signals according to first quantization signals. The flash ADC samples the input signal and generates the first quantization signals. The...