US Patent Issued to HEXAGON INNOVATION HUB on Sept. 8 for "Electro-optic time-of-flight distance meter having a receiver chain" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,198, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HEXAGON INNOVATION HUB GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Electro-optic time-of-flight distance meter having a receiver chain" was invented by Simon Bestler (Langenargen, Germany) and Marcel Rohner (Grub AR, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro-optic distance meter according to the time-of-flight principle with a receiver chain for generating a digital signal from a received light pulse, the receiver chain comprising a photodetector, a first gain stage, in particular a transimpedance amplifier or a current-mode electronic, for converting an input current from the photodetector ass...