US Patent Issued to Realtek Semiconductor on Sept. 1 for "Switched-capacitor circuit and pipelined analog-to-digital convertor including the same" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,118, issued on Sept. 1, 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 control circuit, and a charge-transfer circuit. The sampling capacitor array is configured to sample an input voltage in a sampling phase. The control circuit is configured to determine magnitude of a preset voltage according to the input voltage, and configured to adjust the input voltage sampled by the sampling cap...