ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,608, issued on June 23, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"High input impedance low power ADC" was invented by Andreas Wiesbauer (Portschach, Austria), Jose Luis Ceballos (Villach, Austria) and Luis Hernandez-Corporales (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic system is disclosed. The electronic system includes an input transistor having a source configured to receive an analog input signal; a filter having an input coupled to an output node of the input transistor; an ADC having an input coupled to an output of the filter and an output configured to provide a digital signal representative of ...