US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) on May 20 for "Methods and devices for identifying peaks in histograms" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,348, issued on May 20, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) Ltd. (Marlow, Great Britain).

"Methods and devices for identifying peaks in histograms" was invented by Andreas ABmann (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-pass method for identifying peaks in a time of flight histogram, the single-pass method including conducting an ordered comparison of each bin with an adaptive threshold until finding a bin that exceeds the adaptive threshold; enabling peak tracking in response to finding the bin that exceeds the adaptive threshold; in response to enabling peak tracking, continuing the o...