ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,382, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Distance measuring sensor, signal processing method, and distance measuring module" was invented by Hiroaki Ono (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hironaga Sano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a distance measuring sensor, a signal processing method, and a distance measuring module that enable calculation of distance information and outdoor judgment to be performed by the distance measuring sensor alone. The distance measuring sensor includes a distance measuring unit that calculates distance information ...