US Patent Issued to Microvision on Feb. 10 for "Apparatus for generating backscatter histogram data for determining a diffuse backscatter during an optical runtime measurement and a method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,862, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microvision Inc. (Redmond, Wash.).

"Apparatus for generating backscatter histogram data for determining a diffuse backscatter during an optical runtime measurement and a method" was invented by Ralf Beuschel (Friedrichshafer, Germany) and Falko Diebel (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating backscatter histogram data for determining a diffuse backscatter during an optical runtime measurement, comprising: At least one histogram accumulation unit, which has several signal inputs, so as to receive time-correlated histogram data; and wherein the histogram accumu...