ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,065, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to MegaChips Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Successive-approximation analog-to-digital converter" was invented by Kazuhisa Hirai (Osaka, Japan) and Shingo Adachi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention aims to suppress an increase in the size of a circuit configuration and achieve speed-up. The present invention is a successive-approximation ADC including: a CDAC consisting of a main capacitor bank consisting of a plurality of first capacitors and an auxiliary capacitor bank including a plurality of second capacitors to supply a corrected capacitance value to the first capacit...