H03M 1/18
Automatic control for modifying the range of signals the converter can handle
Official title: Automatic control for modifying the range of signals the converter can handle, e.g. gain ranging
H03M1/18 (Automatic control for modifying the range of signals the converter can handle) appears on 938 US grants and 777 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H03M- Granted patents
- 938
- Published applications
- 777
- Assignees
- 440
- Inventors
- 1,750
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 46 | 60 |
| 2025 | 51 | 18 |
| 2026 | 24 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Transition smoothing apparatus for reducing spurious input to a system under feedback control29 Sep 2026US 12,750,063 B2Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
- Analog-to-digital conversion device8 Sep 2026US 12,732,205 B2Aptiv Technologies AG
- Prediction-assisted sampling circuitry25 Aug 2026US 12,718,122 B2Intel Corporation
- High gain detector techniques for low bandwidth low noise phase-locked loops18 Aug 2026US 12,712,551 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter with embedded filtering4 Aug 2026US 12,700,872 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Adaptive gain comparator for image sensors1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304005 A1Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
- Under-sampling mixed-signal apparatus for adaptation of high-speed analog frontends27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254456 A1Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
- Self-tuning current transformer27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255089 A1Vutility, Inc.
- Clock phase control to adjust the quantizer-dac delay for continuous-time pipelined adcs6 Aug 2026US 2026/0230083 A1Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
- Flexible and low power cache memory architecture23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211567 A1Ambiq Micro, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- On board self-calibration of analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters116US 4,399,426 A1983
- Analog to digital converter with autoranging offset86US 5,329,281 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1994
- Analog to digital conversion circuitry including backup conversion circuitry84US 6,590,517 B12003
- Current source circuit67US 4,251,743 ANippon Electric Co., Ltd. · 1981
- Analog-to-digital converting unit with broad dynamic range67US 4,999,628 AYamaha Corporation · 1991