ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,244, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS INC. (Coppell, Texas).
"Time of flight sensing" was invented by Paul Varillon (Ben Lomond, Calif.) and Sivakumar Kandappan Singaravadivelu (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment method for operating a device includes determining, based on data collected by a first sensor, first information between the first sensor and an object; determining, based on data collected by a second sensor, second information between the second sensor and the object; and determining a distance between the device and the object based on comparing the first information and the...