ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,567, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN (Kyoto, Japan).

"Distance-measuring imaging device" was invented by Haruka Takano (Osaka, Japan), Toru Yamada (Kyoto, Japan), Masahiko Nishimoto (Kyoto, Japan), Seiji Nakamura (Osaka, Japan) and Mayu Nishikawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive controller in a distance-measuring imaging device generates an exposure control signal having first to third exposure control pulses based on output timings of corresponding ones of emission control pulses. The difference between output starting time of the third exposure control pulse and output s...