ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,583, issued on March 17, was assigned to Airoha Technology Corp. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Differential successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter with dynamic input common-mode voltage control and associated method" was invented by Wei-Chen Shen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Tzung-Hung Kang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A differential successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes a comparator circuit, a sampling circuit, a first capacitive digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a second capacitive DAC, a SAR logic circuit, and a common-mode voltage control cir...