US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on July 29 for "Range-finding apparatus and range-finding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,346, issued on July 29, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Range-finding apparatus and range-finding method" was invented by Takahiro Akahane (Kanagawa, Japan), Shun Kaizu (Tokyo), Yusuke Ikeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasutaka Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinichirou Etou (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeshi Oyakawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoto Nagaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Eiji Hirata (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Yuasa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The range-finding apparatus includes a light source, an optical receiver, a setting unit, a detector, and a calculation unit. The light source projec...