US Patent Issued to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory on March 31 for "Apparatus comprising analog to digital converter semiconductor device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,714, issued on March 31, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Japan).

"Apparatus comprising analog to digital converter semiconductor device" was invented by Takuro Kanemura (Hokkai-do, Japan), Yoshiyuki Kurokawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiromichi Godo (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuki Tsuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoru Ohshita (Hyogo, Japan) and Hidefumi Rikimaru (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel semiconductor device is provided. An analog signal is converted into a digital signal using a comparison portion comparing two current values, a control portion, and a current output digital-analog conversion portion. The c...