US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on May 13 for "Methods and apparatus to improve differential non-linearity in digital to analog converters" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,244, issued on May 13, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to improve differential non-linearity in digital to analog converters" was invented by Brian Elies (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes: resistor ladder circuitry including a plurality of intermediate voltage nodes; a first plurality of switches having inputs coupled to a plurality of intermediate voltage nodes and having outputs; first level decoder circuitry configured to: receive a set of input bits; and open or close ones of the first plurality of switches based on a first subset of the input bits; a seco...