ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,894, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Analog-to-digital conversion circuit and operating method of the same" was invented by Dongmin Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaewoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Myoungbo Kwak (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jueon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Junghwan Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog-to-digital conversion circuit includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to receive an input signal and a first clock signal from an external source and to output a second clock signal and a digital output signal, ...