ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,780, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to LYNRED (Palaiseau, France).

"Accurate synchronous analogue counter" was invented by Eric Sanson (Veurey Voroize, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analogue counter for counting the number of events in a logic input signal over a counting period comprising a set of detection cycles includes a circuit for periodically generating a calibrated quantity of charge for each detection cycle, an integration capacitor configured to store said calibrated quantity of charge over each detection cycle for which an event in the logic input signal is detected, a switching circuit for switching the calib...