ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,870, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Analog-to-digital conversion device" was invented by Han-Wen Hu (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Yung-Chun Li (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Chih-Chang Hsieh (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Bo-Rong Lin (Taichung City, Taiwan), Huai-Mu Wang (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chih-Huai Shih (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog-to-digital conversion device, includes the following elements. A sensing circuit, coupled to a bit line of a memory array, and used to sense a current in the bit line to generate a bit-sequence, the bit-sequence has a form of...