ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,867, issued on March 3, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Digital-to-analog converter glitch reduction techniques" was invented by Michael E. Harrell (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Alan Rizada Kilantang (General Trias, Philippines), Angel Rael (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Murat Demirkan (Istanbul).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic system includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) circuit to provide a drive signal to a second circuit that provides a system output, and a control circuit connected to an input of the DAC circuit. The control circuit is configured to receive a target si...