US Patent Issued to Stichting IMEC Nederland on Feb. 17 for "Analog-to-digital converter, ADC, circuit and a method for controlling said ADC circuit" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,193, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Stichting IMEC Nederland (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Analog-to-digital converter, ADC, circuit and a method for controlling said ADC circuit" was invented by Stan Van Der Ven (Oss, Netherlands), Yao-Hong Liu (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Yuming He (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predictive level-crossing, LC, in an analog-to-digital converter, ADC, is provided. The method comprises the steps of comparing a first input signal sampled during a first sampling period with one of an upper threshold level and a lower threshold level to determine if a level crossing h...