US Patent Issued to ifm group services on May 19 for "Method and apparatus for time-of-flight sensing of a scene" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,750, issued on May 19, was assigned to ifm group services gmbh (Tettnang, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for time-of-flight sensing of a scene" was invented by Armin Josef Schoenlieb (Seiersberg-Pirka, Austria) and Hannes Plank (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensing of a scene is provided. The method includes performing, by a ToF sensor, a plurality of first ToF measurements using a first modulation frequency to obtain first measurement values. A respective correlation function of each of the plurality of first ToF measurements is periodic and exhibits an increasing amplitude over dist...