US Patent Issued to AMS INTERNATIONAL on July 14 for "Current-output digital-to-analog converter" (Italian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,618, issued on July 14, was assigned to AMS INTERNATIONAL AG (Jona, Switzerland).

"Current-output digital-to-analog converter" was invented by Massimo Rigo (Trieste, Italy) and Fridolin Michel (Au Zh, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) configured to receive a binary input signal and to provide an output voltage that corresponds to a magnitude of the binary input signal. The circuit further includes a transconductance stage configured to receive the output voltage from the DAC and to generate a DAC current based on a magnitude of the output voltage. The circuit also includ...