US Patent Issued to DENSO on July 8 for "Optical distance measuring apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,858, issued on July 8, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Optical distance measuring apparatus" was invented by Teiyu Kimura (Kariya, Japan), Noriyuki Ozaki (Kariya, Japan), Takehiro Hata (Kariya, Japan), Mineki Soga (Nagakute, Japan), Hiroyuki Matsubara (Nagakute, Japan) and Isamu Takai (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical distance measuring apparatus comprises a laser diode emitting a light pulse, light receiver including a photon-counting light receiver, distance measurement unit including a signal discriminator and propagation estimator, and threshold determiner. The signal discriminator discrimina...