ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,098, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MBDA FRANCE (Le Plessis-Robinson, France).
"Autonomous pyrotechnic igniter simulator" was invented by Xavier Drouault (Le Plessis Robinson, France), Francois Rollin (Le Plessis Robinson, France) and Robert Lacoste (Viroflay, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pyrotechnic igniter simulator (1) has a detection element (5) that is able to detect at least one ignition pulse, a microcontroller (6) that is able to determine characteristics of the ignition pulse detected by the detection element (5) and to control an impedance block (7) depending on these characteristics, the microcontroller (6) ...