US Patent Issued to Samsung Electronics on May 19 for "Hybrid DAC-based driver structure" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,938, issued on May 19, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Hybrid DAC-based driver structure" was invented by Minsoo Choi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hiep Pham (Saratoga, Calif.), Chih-Wei Yao (Saratoga, Calif.) and Hyojun Kim (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid digital-to-analog converter (DAC) driver is provided. The hybrid DAC driver includes an upper DAC stage configured to receive an upper set of bits of a digital signal, the upper DAC stage comprising an upper set of DAC units, with a first DAC unit in the upper set of DAC units having a different weight than a second DAC unit in the uppe...