US Patent Issued to Cirrus Logic on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for precharging driver circuitry for an analog-to-digital converter" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,230, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Systems and methods for precharging driver circuitry for an analog-to-digital converter" was invented by Arashk Norouzpourshirazi (Austin, Texas), Axel Thomsen (Austin, Texas) and John L. Melanson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ADC may include an analog front end (AFE) configured to receive an analog input signal and sample the input signal to generate an analog sampled signal comprising a plurality of analog samples and conversion circuitry configured to convert each analog sample to a respective digital sample during a conversion phase. Th...