ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,314, issued on May 12, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Sigma-delta modulator with residue converter for low-offset measurement system" was invented by John L. Melanson (Austin, Texas), Axel Thomsen (Austin, Texas), Mucahit Kozak (Austin, Texas), Paul Wilson (Linlithgow, Great Britain) and Eric J. King (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing system may include a sensor readout channel configured to convert an electronic signal into a digital quantity. The sensor readout channel may include a sigma-delta modulator having a modulator input and a modulator output, first system-level chopping s...