US Patent Issued to Apple on March 24 for "Digital-to-analog converter with dynamic alternating fill order systems and methods" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,208, issued on March 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Digital-to-analog converter with dynamic alternating fill order systems and methods" was invented by Antonio Passamani (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A number of unit cells of a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) may be simultaneously activated to generate an analog signal according to a decoded digital signal. However, while many unit cells may be generally the same, there may be variations in the gains associated with each unit cell (e.g., based on the locations of the activated unit cells within a unit cell array) amounting to a gain gradient that ma...