ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,620, issued on March 25, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to capture switch charge injections and comparator kickback effects" was invented by Rajashekar Goroju (Bangalore, India), Prasanth K (Bangalore, India), Dileepkumar Ramesh Bhat (Bangalore, India), Rakul Viswanath (Bangalore, India), Sravana Kumar Goli (Bangalore, India) and Rahul Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes: controller circuitry configured to: provide switch signals to capacitive digital to analog converter (C-DAC) circuitry, the C-DAC circuitry including switches; configuring th...