US Patent Issued to Apple on May 20 for "Selection of pulse repetition intervals for sensing time of flight" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,307, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Selection of pulse repetition intervals for sensing time of flight" was invented by Moshe Laifenfeld (Haifa, Israel), Harish Venkataraman (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Cristiano L Niclass (San Jose, Calif.), Doron Shinbox (Tel Aviv, Israel), Shingo Mandai (Mountain View, Calif.) and Susan A. Thompson (Half Moon Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensing apparatus includes a radiation source, which emits pulses of optical radiation toward multiple points in a target scene. A receiver receives the optical radiation that is reflected from the target scene and out...