US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 22 for "Wide range full-scale current configurable current-steering digital-to-analog converter (DAC)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,547, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Wide range full-scale current configurable current-steering digital-to-analog converter (DAC)" was invented by Beomsoo Park (San Diego), Ashok Swaminathan (Cardiff, Calif.), Negar Rashidi (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Nitz Saputra (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards a DAC comprising a plurality of DAC cells, wherein each of the DAC cells comprises: a first current source coupled to an output of the DAC cell; a second current source coupled to the output of the DAC cell; a resistive network including...