ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,503, issued on June 10, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Distance measuring apparatus" was invented by Takehiro Hata (Kariya, Japan), Noriyuki Ozaki (Kariya, Japan) and Teiyu Kimura (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance measuring apparatus is provided which includes an illuminator, a plurality of photodetectors which detect reflected light arising from reflection of light, as emitted from the illuminator, from an object using SPADs, a time measuring unit which measures time elapsed after the emission of light from the illuminator until a number of the photodetectors which is larger than a given value h...