ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,516, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Microvision Inc. (Redmond, Wash.).
"Method and device for optically measuring distances" was invented by Michael Kiehn (Hamburg, Germany) and Michael Kohler (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved method for optical distance measurement is provided, in which only subsets of the transmitting elements of the transmission matrix are activated when using a transmission matrix to transmit measuring pulses and a reception matrix for receiving the latter."
The patent was filed on Jan. 18, 2022, under Application No. 17/577,903.
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