US Patent Issued to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL on April 21 for "Analog digital conversion sensing by dynamically varying charging capacitor values" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,714, issued on April 21, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Analog digital conversion sensing by dynamically varying charging capacitor values" was invented by Chun-Hsiung Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit comprises a plurality of bit lines, a global counter configured to provide a count value, a global reference source, a plurality of capacitors, a comparator, a storage element, and capacitor selector circuitry. The capacitor selector circuitry is configured to select, in dependence on the count value, one or more capacitors from the plurality of capacitors, and wherein ...