US Patent Issued to NXP USA on Sept. 22 for "Self-calibrating digital to analog converter" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,542, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Self-calibrating digital to analog converter" was invented by Ronak Prakashchandra Trivedi (Cupertino, Calif.), Hanqing Xing (Cupertino, Calif.) and Jean CauXuan Le (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to self-calibration of non-linearity in a digital to analog converter (DAC). Example embodiments include a method for calibrating non-linearity of a segmented non-binary DAC in a self-calibrating DAC system, the method comprising: providing first calibration input digital signals to a thermometric weighted segment and measurin...