US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Time-of-flight imaging system and method and computer program for operating a time-of-flight imaging system" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,772, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Time-of-flight imaging system and method and computer program for operating a time-of-flight imaging system" was invented by Caterina Nahler (Thondorf, Austria), Hannes Plank (Graz, Austria) and Armin Josef Schoenlieb (Seiersberg-Pirka, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-of-flight (ToF) imaging system includes a photonic mixer device configured to perform ToF measurements using at least one photo-sensitive element. Each photo-sensitive element includes at least a first element with a modifiable first charge level, a second element with ...