ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,772, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Plexim GmbH (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Method and apparatus for simulating an electrical circuit, digital real-time simulator, computer program and computer-readable medium" was invented by Jost Allmeling (Kilchberg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for simulating an electrical circuit, wherein the electrical circuit comprises at least one electrical switch, the at least one switch is modelled by an equivalent circuit comprising a fixed-value resistor and at least one of a controlled current source or a controlled voltage source, the at least one switch is able to att...