US Patent Issued to AyDee Kay on June 30 for "Signal-adaptive and time-dependent analog-to-digital conversion rate in a ranging receiver" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,432, issued on June 30, was assigned to AyDee Kay LLC (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

"Signal-adaptive and time-dependent analog-to-digital conversion rate in a ranging receiver" was invented by Scott David Kee (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit may include a ranging receiver that includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) having a time-variant sampling or data rate. Notably, the sampling rate may be increased when a return signal is detected by the ranging receiver. For example, the return signal may be detected using a matched filter (such as a correlation of the return signal and a target signal) a...