ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,237, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Light range finding apparatus" was invented by Toshiaki Nagai (Kariya, Japan) and Sakito Miki (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light range finding apparatus is provided with a light emitting optical system that projects a pattern light having an irradiation region and a non-irradiation region; a light receiving sensor including an arrayed light receiving element; a light receiving optical system that receives a reflected light of the pattern light and enlarges a portion of the reflected light corresponding to the irradiation region to be larger than a ...