ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,100, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CEDES AG (Landquart, Switzerland).
"Light grid with distance measurement" was invented by Andri von Allmen (Landquart, Switzerland) and Nannan Zhang (Changshu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light grid for determining the distance between transmitter and receiver strips, includes a transmitter strip with one or more transmitter elements which emit radiation having a specific intensity, a receiver strip with one or more receiver elements which receive the radiation from an assigned transmitter element, and a control device for controlling the transmitter elements and/or the receiver elem...