ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,581, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Distance measuring device and distance measuring method" was invented by Hiroaki Ono (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Kusakari (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takuro Kamiya (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a distance measuring device including a light emitting unit that emits irradiation light, a light receiving unit that receives reflected light of the irradiation light reflected by an object, a calculation unit that calculates a distance to the object, on the basis of the time from emission of the irradiation light to reception...