US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Nov. 4 for "Time-of-flight apparatus and method" (German, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,240, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Time-of-flight apparatus and method" was invented by Rachit Mohan (Stuttgart, Germany), Ward Van Der Tempel (Muizen, Belgium), Michiel Timmermans (Stuttgart, Germany), Ye Chen (Stuttgart, Germany) and Qing Ding (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-of-flight apparatus has a light source for emitting a light pulse to a scene; a photo-detection portion for detecting at least the light pulse reflected from the scene within a first photo-detection time interval, wherein the photo-detection portion includes at least one photo-d...