US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on April 22 for "Analog to digital converter with current steering stage" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,967, issued on April 22, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Analog to digital converter with current steering stage" was invented by Martin Kinyua (Cedar Park, Texas) and Eric Soenen (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes a first ADC stage with a first sub-ADC stage configured to sample the analog input voltage in response to a first phase clock signal and output a first digital value corresponding to an analog input voltage in response to a second phase clock signal. A current mode DAC stage is configured to convert the analog input volt...