ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,868, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Ranging method and apparatus based on detection signal" was invented by Tong Jiang (Beijing), Qiang Li (Beijing), Hongying Wu (Beijing), Honglei Li (Beijing) and Qiang Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ranging method and apparatus are provided. The method includes processing, by a ranging device, an echo signal of a detection signal based on a time-to-digital conversion ranging manner to determine a first data set. The echo signal is processed based on an analog-to-digital conversion ranging manner to determine a ...