US Patent Issued to DENSO on March 4 for "Optical distance measuring device and method for the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,979, issued on March 4, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Optical distance measuring device and method for the same" was invented by Masato Rinnai (Kariya, Japan) and Isamu Takai (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an optical distance measuring device detecting a distance to an object, a light source is driven at a predetermined timing, and light from the light source is emitted to a predetermined range of a space, and reflected light corresponding to the emitted light is detected by at least one light receiving element. A detection signal corresponding to the reflected light is processed, and an SPAD calcula...