US Patent Issued to MediaTek on Sept. 8 for "Successive-approximation register analog-to-digital converter with comparator error detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,201, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Successive-approximation register analog-to-digital converter with comparator error detection" was invented by Tsung-Kai Kao (San Jose, Calif.) and Chi-Lun Lo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A successive-approximation register analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) with comparator error detection is shown, which introduces a comparator error detector to detect errors of the comparators used in the SAR ADC. Digital control bits controlling a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) of the SAR ADC include most significant bits (MSBs) and least signi...