US Patent Issued to DENSO on June 9 for "Ranging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,519, issued on June 9, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Ranging device" was invented by Takayoshi Fujisawa (Kariya-city, Japan), Akifumi Ueno (Kariya-city, Japan) and Noriyuki Ozaki (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a ranging device, a characteristic setting unit is configured to extract, from one or more pieces of received-light information representing changes with time in amount of received light acquired by the light receiving unit, at least one of a received-light amount range and a light reception time range of pulsed light other than emitted light from the light emitting unit, as a specifie...