ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,777, issued on May 27, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Distance measuring device" was invented by Kazuhisa Ide (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance measuring device applies laser light to a distance measurement region and measures a distance to an object that exists in the distance measurement region. The distance measuring device includes: a condensing lens configured to condense reflected light, of the laser light, reflected by the object; a tubular adjustment member disposed at a stage subsequent to the condensing lens and having a first reflecting surface and...