US Patent Issued to Cognisea on Sept. 15 for "Direct time of flight distance measuring system with in-pixel histogram circuit incorporating LFSR shift register based photon counting accumulator" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,639, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Cognisea Inc. (Seattle).

"Direct time of flight distance measuring system with in-pixel histogram circuit incorporating LFSR shift register based photon counting accumulator" was invented by Augusto Ronchini Ximenes (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel and useful direct time of flight distance measuring device that incorporates smart pixel architecture, real-time in-pixel histogram and intensity acquisition, optical power control, and variable resolution. The device avoids the use of time to digital (TDC) converters by generating in-pixel histograms based on a global high-speed clo...