ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,752, issued on May 26, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Multiplying digital-to-analog converter" was invented by Shih-Hsiung Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiplying digital-to-analog converter (MDAC) includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a selection circuit, an operational amplifier, a first switched capacitor (SC) circuit, a second SC circuit, a first switch, a second switch, a first load capacitor, and a second load capacitor. The ADC generates a selection signal according to a first input signal and a second input signal. The selection circuit generates a first ref...