US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Feb. 4 for "Optical distance measurement system using solid state beam steering" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,270, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Optical distance measurement system using solid state beam steering" was invented by David P. Magee (Allen, Texas), Nirmal C. Warke (Saratoga, Calif.), Stephen Aldridge Shaw (Plano, Texas), Terry Alan Bartlett (Dallas) and Rick Oden (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical distance measuring system includes a first transmitter, a first solid state device, and a receiver. The first transmitter is configured to generate a first optical waveform. The first solid state device is configured to receive the first optical waveform and steer the first op...