US Patent Issued to Analog Devices International UnLtd. on Sept. 29 for "Continuous wave time of flight system" (American, British, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,197, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Continuous wave time of flight system" was invented by Jonathan Ephraim David Hurwitz (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Nicolas Le Dortz (Palo Alto, Calif.), Erik D. Barnes (Cambridge, Mass.) and Eoin E. English (Pallasgreen, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides different time of flight, ToF, methods and systems for using two or more non-sinusoidal control signals to achieve modulated output light and/or image sensor control with reduced harmonic content. In particular, the two or more non-sinusoidal control sig...