ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,431, issued on June 30, was assigned to UNIVERSITEIT GENT (Ghent, Belgium) and IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).
"Circuit and a method for sampling an analog signal" was invented by Shengpu Niu (Ghent, Belgium), Joris Lambrecht (Oudenaarde, Belgium), Michiel Verplaetse (Nazareth, Belgium) and Yin Xin (Sint-Denijs-Westrem, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sampling circuit for sampling an analog input signal including: a capacitive means, a reset switch, and a sampling switch; the reset switch and the sampling switch being connected to a signal generator circuit configured to provide periodic reset and sampling control signals to the...