ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,990, issued on May 27, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
"Imaging system with time-of-flight sensing" was invented by Erez Tadmor (Atlit, Israel) and Tomas Geurts (Haasrode, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-of-flight (TOF) sensing system may include an illumination module and a sensor module. The sensor module may include an array of sensor pixels, pixel-level readout circuitry, and column-level readout circuitry coupled to the pixel-level readout circuitry via corresponding column lines. Pixel-level readout circuitry may be provided on a per-pixel basis (e.g., dedicated or unsh...