ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,189, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) auto-sequential canning with expansion multiplexer(s) and auxiliary circuit configuration control(s)" was invented by Chongli Wu (Queen Creek, Ariz.), Zhijie Qin (Wuxi, China), Yaoqiao Li (Suzhou, China) and Ying Wang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) auto-sequential scanning with expansion multiplexer(s) and auxiliary circuit configuration control(s). In some embodiments, an electronic circuit may include: a multiplexer; an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) cou...