US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Americas on March 31 for "Adaptive power tuning in a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,716, issued on March 31, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Adaptive power tuning in a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter" was invented by Eric Swindlehurst (Marysville, Wash.) and Gajender Rohilla (Tucson, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Successive Approximation Analog-to-Digital Converter (SAR_ADC) and method of operating the same are provided. Generally, the SAR_ADC includes a comparator having a first input to receive an input voltage (VIN), and a second input coupled to a n-bit capacitive digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to receive a voltage (VDAC), a Successiv...