ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,589, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to IRIS-GMBH INFRARED & INTELLIGENT SENSORS (Berlin).
"Imaging sensor" was invented by Andreas Thun-Hohenstein (Berlin), Harald Leder (Berlin) and Wilfried Lothar Wagner (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to imaging 3-D time-of-flight sensors that are particularly suitable for the detection of objects and individuals in three-dimensional space. This capability results from the basic principle. In each image point of the sensor, the distance to the object located in the observation space is determined by using the propagation time (time of flight) of light pulses. The sens...