ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,530, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MIRAXIA EDGE TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Ranging device and ranging method" was invented by Nobutaka Nakamae (Osaka, Japan), Yuki Minami (Osaka, Japan), Wataru Matsumoto (Osaka, Japan), Mitsuhiko Otani (Hyogo, Japan), Junichi Matsuo (Osaka, Japan), Takuya Asano (Hyogo, Japan), Haruka Takano (Osaka, Japan), Shigeru Saitou (Kyoto, Japan), Shinzo Koyama (Osaka, Japan) and Toshiya Fujii (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ranging device includes: a pulse generator; a controller that controls the pulse generator according to n (n is an integer greater than or equal to 4) types of ...