ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,000, issued on May 5, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC. (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

"Successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter and operating method thereof" was invented by Shiue-Shin Liu (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan) and Hou-Tse Yu (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an analog-to-digital converter including a comparator, a first capacitor array, a second capacitor array and a controller. The first capacitor array is controlled by a first control signal of the controller and coupled to a first input terminal of the comparator. The second capacitor array is controlled ...