US Patent Issued to AMS INTERNATIONAL on Nov. 25 for "Time of flight sensor" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,042, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AMS INTERNATIONAL AG (Rapperswil, Switzerland).

"Time of flight sensor" was invented by Doug Nelson (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Pradeep Hegde (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Timothy Cogan (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Time of Flight Sensor A method of measuring optical crosstalk in a time of flight sensor, which comprises a substantially transparent cover covering a light emitter and one or more photodetectors. The method comprises emitting a series of pulses of light from the light emitter; and using the one or more photodetectors to obtain a distribution of times at which ...