US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 18 for "Differentiating close-range measurements of time of flight" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,541, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Differentiating close-range measurements of time of flight" was invented by Moshe Laifenfeld (Haifa, Israel) and Dan Nussinson (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensing device includes a light source, which emits one or more beams of light pulses toward a scene. An array of single-photon detectors output electrical pulses in response to photons that are incident thereon. Light collection optics form an image of the scene on the array. Processing circuitry counts the electrical pulses output by the single-photon detectors during multiple ti...