US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Americas on March 31 for "Post-sampling selectable gain in sample and hold analog-to-digital converters" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,715, issued on March 31, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Post-sampling selectable gain in sample and hold analog-to-digital converters" was invented by David Schaffenrath (Villach, Germany), Rocco Calabro (Arnoldstein, Germany) and Ketan Dewan (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a post-sampling selectable gain circuit in sample and hold (S/H) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The method includes scaling down or scaling up a reference voltage to generate a plurality of candidate voltages associated with a plurality of measurement accuracies of a sample...