US Patent Issued to Realtek Semiconductor on July 14 for "Switched-capacitor circuit and pipelined analog-to-digital convertor including the same" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,490, issued on July 14, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Switched-capacitor circuit and pipelined analog-to-digital convertor including the same" was invented by Wei-Cian Hong (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switched-capacitor circuit includes a sampling capacitor array, a charge-transfer circuit and a control circuit. The sampling capacitor array is configured to sample an input voltage in a sampling phase. The charge transfer circuit includes a first current source and a second current source having different current-voltage characteristics, in which the first current source and the ...