ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,625, issued on July 14, was assigned to SG MICRO CORP (Beijing).

"Analog-to-digital converter and operating method thereof" was invented by Lei Tan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses an analog-to-digital converter and an operating method thereof. The analog-to-digital converter includes a plurality of sub-periods in one conversion frame, and performs at least the following operations in each sub-period: a residual charge storage phase, an integration phase, a charge redistribution phase, and an SAR conversion phase. The analog-to-digital converter includes a capacitive digital-to-analog converter ...