US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army on Oct. 7 for "Continuous time signal processing systems and subsystems" (Maryland, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,550, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Continuous time signal processing systems and subsystems" was invented by Patrick W. Jungwirth (Bel Air, Md.) and W. Michael Crowe (Madison, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Continuous time pipeline, level-crossing (LC), analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) use a plurality of stages from a first stage to a last stage. Each stage has an array of comparators that are provided with an array of reference voltage levels. Each stage is configured to detect level crossings of increasing fineness compared to the pre...