US Patent Issued to DENSO, MIRISE Technologies, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 16 for "Distance measuring device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,480, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan), MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Distance measuring device" was invented by Taku Suzuki (Nisshin, Japan), Masashige Sato (Nisshin, Japan), Koichi Oyama (Nisshin, Japan) and Yoshiki Matsumoto (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance measuring device includes: a modulated light output unit configured to output a modulated light; a transmitting scanner configured to emit an input light, which is one branched light of the modulated light, as an emitted light; a receiving scanner into which the emitted l...