US Patent Issued to ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLtd. on May 20 for "Proximity detection system" (British, Irish, Polish, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,349, issued on May 20, was assigned to ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLtd. COMPANY (Limerick, Ireland).

"Proximity detection system" was invented by Jonathan Ephraim David Hurwitz (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Javier Calpe Maravilla (Alegemesi, Spain), Eoin E. English (Pallasgreen, Ireland) and Krystian Balicki (Wrzesnia, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a Time of Flight (ToF) camera system configured to be operable in a proximity mode. In the proximity mode, the proximity of an object may be estimated by relatively delaying or offsetting the charge accumulation timing of multiple different columns of pixel...