ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,580, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Time-of-flight based distance measuring method and related distance measuring system" was invented by Meng-Ta Yang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-of-flight based distance measuring method and distance measuring system. The distance measuring method includes: intermittently transmitting a plurality of pulses from a pulse generation unit, wherein the plurality of pulses have a fixed pulse length but a non-fixed transmission period, and the plurality of pulses are reflected from a target to generate a plurality of re...