ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,597, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SANECHIPS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Analog-to-digital conversion method, analog-to-digital converter, and base station" was invented by Anqiang Guo (Guangdong, China) and Shangzheng Yang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an analog-to-digital conversion method applied to an analog-to-digital converter and including: for any clock cycle, amplifying, through an inter-stage gain amplifier, a first residual stored in a sampling capacitor corresponding to a first analog-to-digital conversion channel, and sampling the amplified first residu...