US Patent Issued to NXP on Oct. 21 for "Time of flight calculation with inter-bin delta estimation" (German, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,515, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Time of flight calculation with inter-bin delta estimation" was invented by Maxim Kulesh (Hamburg, Germany), Sebastian Andre Fatjo Carvajal (Leuven, Belgium) and Mark Steigemann (Ebstorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to time of flight calculations for a lidar transceiver. Example embodiments include a method of calculating time of flight of a lidar signal, the method comprising: i) transmitting a light pulse to start (502) an acquisition time period having a plurality of successive time portions; ii) for each successive time p...