ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,290, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Sensor control system and sensor" was invented by Kumiko Mahara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a sensor control system capable of reducing a load on an application system in processing of a synchronization signal and performing flexible synchronization control in accordance with a system change even if the system change such as an increase in the number of sensors is made. A sensor control system that includes a light emitting unit, a sensor including a signal processing unit that performs signal processing on the...