US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Continuous-time data converter with digital multi-stage noise shaping subconverter" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,457, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Continuous-time data converter with digital multi-stage noise shaping subconverter" was invented by Maurits Ortmanns (Ulm, Germany), John G. Kauffman (Neu-Ulm, Germany) and Ahmed Abdelaal (Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, a continuous-time delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes: a continuous-time loop filter having an input coupled to an input of the continuous-time delta-sigma ADC; a multi-bit quantizer coupled to an output of the continuous-time loop filter; a 1-bit or 1.5 bit digital de...