ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,942, issued on April 7, was assigned to SILEAD INC. (Shanghai).

"Analog-to-digital converter, touch sensing chip and electronic device" was invented by Jinling Zhou (Shanghai), Xianyin Yu (Shanghai) and Chenjun Weng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog-to-digital converter, a touch sensing chip and an electronic device are disclosed. The ADC includes a digital-to-analog conversion circuit, a comparator, a successive approximation register logic circuit and a residue sampling and summing circuit, the successive approximation register logic circuit coupled to output terminal of the comparator and control terminal of the d...