ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,591, issued on June 30, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Optical distance measuring device" was invented by Daisuke Takasao (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical distance measuring device includes a light-emitting unit emitting light, a light-receiving unit having a light-receiving pixel for receiving incident light and outputting a detection-signal corresponding to received-light intensity of the incident light, and a controller acquiring a detection-signal corresponding to received-light intensity of reflected light, which corresponds to the emitted light reflected by an object, from the li...