ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,548, issued on May 19, was assigned to Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corp. (Tokyo).
"Optical sensor system" was invented by Tomohiko Ogawa (Tokyo) and Yoshihiko Koizumi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a sensor system having an improved SNR. The sensor system (1) includes: a sensor (gas sensor 10) including a light-emitting element (11) and a detecting element (light-receiving element 12) that detects a signal that is based on light emitted from the light-emitting element; and a computation device (20) that, by taking an interval in which the light-emitting element emits light as an ON interval and an interval in which the...