US Patent Issued to Analog Devices International UnLtd. on June 30 for "Continuous wave time of flight system" (Irish, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,611, issued on June 30, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Continuous wave time of flight system" was invented by Javier Calpe-Maravilla (Algemesi, Spain), Filiberto Pla (Limerick, Ireland), Jonathan Hurwitz (Limerick, Ireland) and Nicolas Le Dortz (Limerick, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided continuous wave time of flight, CW-ToF, camera system comprising: one or more lasers for outputting laser light; one or more imaging sensors, the one or more image sensors each comprising a plurality of imaging pixels for accumulating charge based on incident light comprising refl...