US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Nov. 11 for "Asynchronous laser pulse detection and passive imaging" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,852, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Asynchronous laser pulse detection and passive imaging" was invented by Jean-Alain Nicolas (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device including at least one detection element formed of a photodetector associated with and connected to a circuit for reading signals generated by the photodetector. The circuit is provided with an integration stage equipped with an integration capacitor for integrating charges coming from the photodetector, a pulse detection stage for detecting current pulses produced by...