US Patent Issued to Realtek Semiconductor on Aug. 4 for "Hybrid class-D amplifier" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,835, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Hybrid class-D amplifier" was invented by Chih-Chiang Wang (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid class-D amplifier is provided. The hybrid class-D amplifier includes a digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) input stage circuit, a loop filter circuit electrically coupled to the DAC input stage circuit, a quantizer circuit electrically coupled to the loop filter circuit, an output stage circuit electrically coupled to the quantizer circuit, and a feedback circuit electrically coupled between the output stage circuit and the loop filter ...