US Patent Issued to SMARTSENS TECHNOLOGY(HK) on Sept. 16 for "Counter, analog-to-digital converter, and method for reading out image signals" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,736, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SMARTSENS TECHNOLOGY(HK) Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Counter, analog-to-digital converter, and method for reading out image signals" was invented by Dongchen Wang (Shanghai), Wenlong Lin (Shanghai) and Yaowu Mo (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A counter, an analog-to-digital converter, and a method for reading out image signals; the counter comprises N cascaded counting units, each of which comprises a writable D flip-flop, which has a clock input, a data input, a Q output, a Q-bar output, a control input, and a write input; the clock input of the writable D flip-flop of each counting unit...