US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions, IMEC VZW on May 13 for "Analog-to-digital converter circuit" (Belgian, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,242, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan) and IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).

"Analog-to-digital converter circuit" was invented by Keigo Bunsen (Kanagawa, Japan), Ewout Martens (Leuven, Belgium), Davide Dermit (Leuven, Belgium) and Jan Craninckx (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an analog-to-digital converter circuit including: a first converter circuit generating a first digital code by performing analog-to-digital conversion on the basis of an input voltage; a second converter circuit generating a second digital code by performing, on the basis of the in...