US Patent Issued to Trustees of Tufts College on June 24 for "D/A converter with resistive interpolation" (Colorado, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,529, issued on June 24, was assigned to Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Mass.).

"D/A converter with resistive interpolation" was invented by Wei Wang (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Sameer Sonkusale (Lincoln, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital-to-analog converter that outputs an analog value representing a digital value includes a decoding stage and an interpolation stage. The decoding stage defines upper and lower bounds and the interpolation stage outputs an interpolated value that is between the upper and lower bounds. The upper and lower bounds are based on a most-significant portion of the digital value. The interp...