ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,064, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to AyDeeKay LLC (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

"Stable low-power analog-to-digital converter (ADC) reference voltage" was invented by Christopher A. Menkus (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Robert W. Kim (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conversion circuit that performs analog-to-digital conversion is described. During operation, the conversion circuit receives an input signal. Then, the conversion circuit performs analog-to-digital conversion and provides a quantized output corresponding to the input signal based at least in part on a first power-supply voltage and a second power-supply vol...