ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,504, issued on June 10, was assigned to UIF (UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY FOUNDATION), YONSEI UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Distance measuring apparatus and impulse IQ signal mismatch calibration apparatus" was invented by Tae Wook Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Min Jae Yoo (Seoul, South Korea) and Geun Haeng Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance measuring apparatus includes: a digital-to-time converter (DTC) configured to receive a clock signal and output a pulse corresponding to a provided code; an in-phase (I) template generation part configured to be triggered by the pulse output from the DTC to generate an I te...