US Patent Issued to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) on Nov. 25 for "Time-of-flight device and 3D optical detector" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,038, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Time-of-flight device and 3D optical detector" was invented by Assim Boukhayma (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Antonino Caizzone (Milvignes, Switzerland) and Christian Enz (Saint-Aubin-Sauges, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Time-of-flight optical device and a 3D optical detector comprising a CMOS integrated circuit with an array of photosensitive pixels that are, at least in part, interconnected to form macro-pixels (180). Each macro-pixel (180) groups a plurality of individual pixels contributing their photocarri...