ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,647, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon, South Korea) and Sogang University Research and Business Development Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Analog-to-digital converter" was invented by Sunghun Yang (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehun Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Youngwon Cho (Seoul, South Korea) and Jinwook Burm (Goyang, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog-to-digital converter includes a comparator configured to compare an input voltage and a conversion voltage and to generate a comparison result; a digital-to-analog converter configured to generate the conversion voltage according to a digital outp...