US Patent Issued to Avago Technologies International Sales on March 17 for "Low parasitic capacitance architecture for successive approximation register analog-to-digital converters" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,581, issued on March 17, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Low parasitic capacitance architecture for successive approximation register analog-to-digital converters" was invented by Hongjie Zhu (Austin, Texas), Jie Fang (Austin, Texas), Queennie Lim (San Jose, Calif.) and Frank Singor (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unit capacitor for a switched-capacitor digital-to-analog converter is provided. An apparatus includes a first plate formed of a conductive material, wherein the first plate comprises one or more first fingers, wherein each respective first finger of the one or...