US Patent Issued to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 23 for "Area-efficient and moderate conversion time analog to digital converter (ADC)" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,040, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Area-efficient and moderate conversion time analog to digital converter (ADC)" was invented by V.M. Shivasubramaniyarajan (Bangalore, India), Aswani Krishna Addagalla (Bangalore, India) and Pradeep Anantula (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for converting an input analog signal to a digital representation thereof. A method includes determining an input analog signal voltage range of the input analog signal, and splitting the input analog signal voltage range into n+1 sub-ranges, n being a number of splits in the...