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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/66 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/66 ;
Abstract
For regulating the signal level fed to an analog/digital converter, the rate of change at which the output signal of the analog/digital converter changes over time, in particular the rate of change of an output bit of the analog/digital converter, is measured and compared with a setpoint value, in order to set the signal level fed to the analog/digital converter based on the comparison.