US Patent Issued to NOVATEK Microelectronics on July 14 for "Sample and hold circuit and related driver circuit" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,626, issued on July 14, was assigned to NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Sample and hold circuit and related driver circuit" was invented by Jin-Yi Lin (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Jhih-Siou Cheng (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Yung-Te Chang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Chih-Cheng Chen (Yunlin County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample and hold (S/H) circuit includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a register and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The ADC receives an input signal and converts the input signal into a digital code. The register, coupled to the ADC, stores the digital code. The DAC, coupl...