ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,630, issued on July 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Digital-to-analog converter and apparatus including the same" was invented by Byungwoo Koo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangpil Nam (Pohang-si, South Korea), Sunghan Do (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junsang Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jungho Lee (Anyang-si, South Korea), Youngjae Cho (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Michael Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured to transmit and receive a radio frequency (RF) signal is provided. The apparatus includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) configured to convert a digi...