US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 30 for "Digital-to-analog conversion" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,436, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Digital-to-analog conversion" was invented by Byungwoo Koo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sunghan Do (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangpil Nam (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngjae Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Michael Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for generating an analog output from a digital input includes a controller configured to generate a control signal based on the digital input, and a segment cell circuit including a plurality of segment cells turned on or off based on the contro...