US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Feb. 4 for "Self calibration for an analog-to-digital converter" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,678, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Self calibration for an analog-to-digital converter" was invented by Vishnu Ravinuthula (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating analog-to-digital conversion includes converting, by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a first input voltage to a first digital code. The first input voltage is generated from a reference voltage used as a reference voltage by the ADC. The method includes converting, by the ADC, a second input voltage to a second digital code. The second input voltage is generated from the reference voltage used as the referen...