US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS (GRENOBLE 2), STMICROELECTRONICS (ALPS) on Nov. 4 for "Method for controlling an analog-to-digital converter" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,655, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (GRENOBLE 2) SAS (Grenoble, France) and STMICROELECTRONICS (ALPS) SAS (Grenoble, France).

"Method for controlling an analog-to-digital converter" was invented by Sandrine Nicolas (Saint Egreve, France), Danika Perrin (Jarrie, France) and Jean-Baptiste Casanova (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description concerns a method of controlling an analog-to-digital converter, wherein most significant bits are determined by successive approximations implementing a first digital-to-analog converter and a second digital-to-analog converter. Further, least signi...