US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on April 15 for "Distance-measuring device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,760, issued on April 15, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Distance-measuring device" was invented by Takamasa Ando (Osaka, Japan) and Shunsuke Imai (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance-measuring device includes a light source, a light detector, and a circuit. The circuit causes the light source to output a light pulse toward a target object, causes the light detector to detect a reflection-light pulse in a first period and a second period to generate a first signal and a second signal, respectively, and generates and outputs data indicating a distance from the ligh...