ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,347, issued on May 20, was assigned to SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Time-of-flight sensor, distance measuring system, and electronic device" was invented by Yu-An Liang (Guangdong, China) and Meng-Ta Yang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a time-of-flight (TOF) sensor and a related chip, electronic device, and distance measuring system. The TOF sensor includes: a clock signal generation circuit to generate a first clock signal and a second clock signal; a transmission circuit to generate a third clock signal based on the first clock signal, wherein the third...