ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,012, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical detection device, optical distance measurement device, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Kei Takeyama (Ebina, Japan), Junichiro Hayakawa (Ebina, Japan) and Daisuke Iguchi (Ebina, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical detection device includes a light emitter that irradiates an area of interest; a light receiver that receives reflected light that has been emitted by the light emitter and reflected on a detection object, the light receiver including plural light-receiving elements divided into plural light rec...