US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives on Aug. 25 for "Programmable voltage to time converter" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,492, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives (Paris).

"Programmable voltage to time converter" was invented by Ali Mostafa (Grenoble Cedex, France), Franck Badets (Grenoble Cedex, France) and Emmanuel Hardy (Grenoble Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable voltage to time converter, comprising a locking frequency generator configured to generate a locking frequency; a current generator configured to generate a biasing current; a relaxation oscillator configured to be powered by the biasing current and generate an output voltage signal from the locking frequ...