US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on March 17 for "Delta sigma modulation circuit, digital transmission circuit, and digital transmitter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,584, issued on March 17, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Delta sigma modulation circuit, digital transmission circuit, and digital transmitter" was invented by Hiroyuki Mizutani (Tokyo), Tatsuya Hagiwara (Tokyo) and Michiya Hayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a circuit including: a loop filter to perform digital processing on a signal inputted from an outside; multiple quantizers to output 1-bit signals corresponding to magnitude relationships with thresholds on the basis of the signal after the digital processing by the loop filter; and an averaging circuit to calculate the average of the v...