ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,953, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY) (Seoul, South Korea).

"Analog-to-digital converter" was invented by Jaeduk Han (Seoul, South Korea), Eunsang Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sanghun Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Changhyun Pyo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) using a plurality of capacitor digital-to-analog converters (CDACs) includes a plurality of comparators, a plurality of CDACs each configured to generate a reference voltage, and a switch circuit configured to connect one CDAC among the plurality of CD...