ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,908, issued on May 19, was assigned to Chongqing GigaChip Technology Co. Ltd. (Chongqing, China).

"Comparator based on pre-amplifier stage structure and analog-to-digital converter" was invented by Daiguo Xu (Chongqing, China), Hequan Jiang (Chongqing, China), Ruzhang Li (Chongqing, China), Jianan Wang (Chongqing, China), Dongbing Fu (Chongqing, China), Guangbing Chen (Chongqing, China), Zhou Yu (Chongqing, China), Zhengping Zhang (Chongqing, China), Can Zhu (Chongqing, China) and Weiqi Gao (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A comparator based on a pre-amplifier stage structure and an analog-to-digital converter are prov...