US Patent Issued to HOKUYO AUTOMATIC on Sept. 1 for "Optical rangefinder and optical rangefinding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,150, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to HOKUYO AUTOMATIC Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical rangefinder and optical rangefinding method" was invented by Keisuke Inoue (Osaka, Japan) and Kentaro Nishimura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A TOF optical rangefinder 200 calculates a distance to an object based on the time of flight measured based on a sum of voltage pulses output from a plurality of photon-counting light receiving elements 3, where the optical rangefinder 200 is configured to generate a histogram showing a distribution frequency of the times of flight, as calculated by a time-of-flight measurement circuit for ...