US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 11 for "Time of flight distance determinations" (Oregon, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,609, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Time of flight distance determinations" was invented by Shabbir Ahmed (Beaverton, Ore.), Vuk Lesi (Cornelius, Ore.), Christopher Noe Gutierrez (Hillsboro, Ind.) and Ignacio J. Alvarez (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a sensor, configured to detect electromagnetic radiation originating from a source external to the device and reflected from an object; and to generate an electrical signal representing the detected electromagnetic radiation; and a processor, configured to determine a distance between the device and the object base...