US Patent Issued to IFM Electronic on Nov. 3 for "Distance measurement system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,519, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to IFM Electronic GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Distance measurement system" was invented by Michael Franke (Dresden, Germany) and Carl Philip Heising (Wilnsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a PMD light transit time sensor (22) for an optical distance measurement system, comprising an array of PMD light transit time pixels (21), said light transit time pixels having diode nodes (Ga, Gb) for an A channel and a B channel (A, B) and being connectable to a corresponding column line (cola, colb) via a first switch (S1) and to a reset potential (vreset) via a second switch (S...