ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,372, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Digital-to-analog converter architecture for audio amplifiers" was invented by Miles Reuben Thompson (Portland, Ore.), Wai Laing Lee (Portland, Ore.), Rie Sasakawa (Beaverton, Ore.) and Xudong Zhao (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) architecture can include an array having a total number of bit cells, and a control system configured to activate a selected number of the total number of bit cells and to deactivate the remaining bit cells. The selected number can be variable, such that t...