US Patent Issued to Credo Technology Group on Sept. 1 for "Adaptive comparator calibration" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,189, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Credo Technology Group Ltd. (Cayman Islands).

"Adaptive comparator calibration" was invented by Kyungjin Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Haihui Luo (Saratoga, Calif.), Shunken Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Junqing Sun (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flash analog to digital converters and other types of integrated circuits having multiple comparators may employ calibration methods and firmware to efficiently compensate the various offset voltages of the multiple comparators. One illustrative integrated circuit includes: multiple comparators each configured to provide a comparator output ...