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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,892, issued on July 8, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Optical distance measuring device" was invented by Noriyuki Ozaki (Kariya, Japan), Mitsuhiro Kiyono (Kariya, Japan), Teiyu Kimura (Kariya, Japan) and Shinji Kashiwada (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical distance measuring device includes: a light source unit that irradiates a measurement region with irradiation light; a light receiving unit that has a light receiving surface including a plurality of light receiving elements capable of receiving reflected light from a range including the measurement region corresponding to irradiation with the irr...