ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,125, issued on June 2, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Digital-to-analog conversion apparatus and method having signal calibration mechanism" was invented by Shih-Hsiung Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hsuan-Ting Ho (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Liang-Wei Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a digital-to-analog conversion apparatus having a signal calibration mechanism. A conversion circuit performs digital-to-analog conversion on a digital signal to generate an output analog signal. An echo transmission circuit performs down-sampling on an echo path that the output an...