ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,205, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Analog-to-digital conversion device" was invented by Markus Heinrich (Wiehl, Germany) and Guillaume Tournabien (Saint Soupplets, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog-to-digital converter conversion device includes a variable gain adjuster configured to adjust a level of an analog input signal with a variable gain. The analog-to-digital converter conversion device includes an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the adjusted analog input signal to a digital output signal. The analog-to-digital converter conversion device...