US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on July 28 for "Apparatus and method for measuring distance and/or velocity of object" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,394, issued on July 28, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Apparatus and method for measuring distance and/or velocity of object" was invented by Yumiko Kato (Osaka, Japan), Kohei Kikuchi (Osaka, Japan), Kenji Narumi (Osaka, Japan), Hiroyuki Takagi (Osaka, Japan) and Yasuhisa Inada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement apparatus includes a light source, an interference optical system, a photodetector, a processing circuit, and a storage apparatus. The interference optical system splits light emitted from the light source into reference light and output light and g...