ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,708, issued on March 31, was assigned to Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (Daegu, South Korea).

"SAR analog-to-digital converter with high-order noise-shaping characteristics" was invented by Jung Hyup Lee (Daegu, South Korea), Geun Ha Kim (Jinju-si, South Korea) and Jae Eun Jang (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter and the SAR analog-to-digital converter according to an example embodiment includes an input unit including at least one SAR capacitor; a recycling integrator connected to the input unit...