US Patent Issued to Qorvo US on March 3 for "Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with background calibration" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,868, issued on March 3, was assigned to Qorvo US Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with background calibration" was invented by Ryan Lee Bunch (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) with background calibration processes are disclosed. In one aspect, an ADC with a plurality of comparators that each compare an input voltage to voltages that are generated at taps across a plurality of references (e.g., a reference resistor ladder). The comparators are initially calibrated with foreground calibration routines and continuously recalibrated to compensate for aging, vol...