US Patent Issued to LG INNOTEK on Nov. 18 for "System and method for differential comparator-based time-of-flight measurement with amplitude estimation" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,452, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for differential comparator-based time-of-flight measurement with amplitude estimation" was invented by Dane Bennington (Pittsburgh) and Michel Laverne (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a first unit configured to: receive a LiDAR output signal, compare a time-delayed LiDAR output signal to the LiDAR output signal, and provide a digital output signal, and a second unit configured to generate LiDAR data including a distance and an amplitude based on the digital output signal."

The patent was filed on May 9, ...