ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,570, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES NV (Tessenderlo, Belgium).

"Distortion determination apparatus and method of determining a distortion" was invented by Andreas Ott (Erfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motion or saturation determination apparatus (100) comprising: a light source configured to emit light and an optoelectronic device (102) configured to receive an electromagnetic signal and to translate the signal to a plurality of electrical output signals corresponding to a plurality of predetermined phase offset values in accordance with an indirect time of flight measurement technique. A si...