ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,578, issued on March 17, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Power optimized signal chain for low offset drift" was invented by Maitrey Shridhar Kamble (Mumbai, India), Mahesh Madhavan (Kerala, India), Brian Jadus (Williston, Vt.), Anoop Kalathil (Kuttippuram, India), Jesper Steensgaard (Sequim, Wash.) and Damien J. McCartney (Raheen, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques that improve efficiency of analog-to-digital conversion circuits by reducing idling time, during which the ADC circuit is not converting an analog signal to a digital representation, which r...