US Patent Issued to OMRON on Dec. 30 for "Laser scanner apparatus and method of operation" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,669, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Laser scanner apparatus and method of operation" was invented by Takeshi Shoji (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshiharu Tani (Kyoto, Japan), Adam Sowul (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Fred Schleifer (Spencer, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser scanner apparatus emits a laser pulse and monitors for pulse reflections, with the relative timing of a reflected pulse detected by the apparatus being translated into an object distance according to Time-of-Flight (ToF) measurements performed by the apparatus. According to an example configurations or an example method of operation, the a...