US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on July 8 for "Electronic device and method" (Belgian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,866, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Electronic device and method" was invented by Qing Ding (Stuttgart, Germany), Victor Belokonskiy (Zaventem, Belgium) and Ward Van Der Tempel (Muizen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to generate a coded modulation signal (54; 60) for modulating illumination light (16; 55) transmitted by a time of flight camera (3)."

The patent was filed on July 10, 2019, under Application No. 17/258,709.

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