ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,203, issued on March 24, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Low distortion driver for analog-to-digital converter (ADC)" was invented by Dileep Kumar Bhat (Bangalore, India) and Rahul Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver includes an inverting amplifier stage and a non-inverting amplifier stage. The inverting amplifier stage includes an inverting amplifier input and an inverting amplifier output. The inverting amplifier stage includes a first voltage follower which includes a first voltage follower input coupled to the inverting amplifier input and a first voltage follower output coupled to ...