ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,659, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Device and methods for reconfigurable analog input monitoring" was invented by Thomas Youbok Lee (Chandler, Ariz.), Ibiyemi Omole (Gilbert, Ariz.), Jimmy Yu (Chandler, Ariz.), Santosh Patel (Bengaluru, India), Daniel Meacham (Del Mar, Calif.) and Hadj Attlassy (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ADC system may include an ADC, a comparator, a voltage source, a comparator output polarity control circuit and a comparator output counter. An analog input signal may be input to a first input of the comparator, and an output of the voltage ...