Patents by Inventor Francois Rossel

Francois Rossel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Ultra high-speed time-to-digital converter
    Patent number: 4719608
    Abstract: A chain of gates is formed on one and the same substrate of integrated circuit to enable the propagation along the chain of a starting signal received at one end of the chain, and a locking circuit formed for example by another chain of gates has outputs connected to the gates of the chain in order to be able to block the state thereof following the reception of a stop signal, so that the number of gates gone through by the starting signal is a linear function of the time elapsed between the reception of the starting signal and the reception of the stop signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1988
    Assignee: Establissement Public styled: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Genat, Francois Rossel