ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,491, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Digital-to-analog converter, manufacturing method thereof, and successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter" was invented by Wei-Cian Hong (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive digital-to-analog converter (CDAC) comprising a capacitive structure and a control logic circuit coupled to each other is provided. The control logic circuit comprises switch groups that each comprises first and second switch circuits. The first and second switch circuits each comprise first, second terminals, a first via and a contro...