US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on June 17 for "Optical time of flight sensor for navigation systems in robotic applications" (Chinese, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,386, issued on June 17, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Optical time of flight sensor for navigation systems in robotic applications" was invented by Yichang Wang (Suzhou, China), Karthik Rajagopal Ganapathy (Allen, Texas) and Raja Reddy Patukuri (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a photosensor and a controller. A first photoemitter transmits light onto objects at first height, a second photoemitter onto objects at second, lower height, and a third photoemitter onto objects at third, lowest height. The controller causes one of the photoemitters to transmit modulated light and the pho...