ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,206, issued on March 24, was assigned to GIGADEVICE SEMICONDUCTOR INC. (Beijing).

"Analog-to-digital converter, system-on-chip and electronic control system" was invented by Qingqing Yang (Haidian, China) and Cong Wang (Haidian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a system-on-chip (SoC) and an electronic control system. In addition to hardware circuits commonly found in conventional ADCs, including a multi-channel input multiplexer, an analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) circuit, a sequence output multiplexer and a sequence data register, the ADC further includes a...