ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,447, issued on July 8, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).
"Electronic circuit for providing a digital signal with ramps" was invented by Mathieu Toubeix (Grenoble, France), Eric Guthmuller (Grenoble, France) and Adrian Evans (Grenoble, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description concerns an electronic circuit (10) for providing a digital signal (Sn) comprising a succession of ramps, the electronic circuit being clocked by a clock signal, the electronic circuit being configured to supply a number Nout of digital values of the digital signal at each cycle of the cloc...