US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on Oct. 14 for "Offset compensated analog-to-digital converter" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,146, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Offset compensated analog-to-digital converter" was invented by Sundaraiah Gurindagunta (Gollapudi, India) and Parthasarathy V. Sampath (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oversampling analog-to-digital converter (ADC) may include a quantizer that adds an offset error to each oversampling sample. If not reduced, the offset error may limit the performance of the ADC. The existing methods to eliminate the offset may increase a circuit size and slow the operation of the ADC. An oversampling ADC that can reduce, or remove...