ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,761, issued on April 15, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Phase anti-aliasing using spread-spectrum techniques in an optical distance measurement system" was invented by Subhash Chandra Venkata Sadhu (Bengaluru, India), Bharath Patil (Bengaluru, India) and Jaiganesh Balakrishnan (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three dimensional time of flight (TOF) camera includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter is configured to generate an electrical transmit signal at a plurality of frequencies over an integration time period and generate a transmit optical waveform corresponding with the electrical ...