US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on March 31 for "Distance measurement device and distance measurement system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,065, issued on March 31, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Distance measurement device and distance measurement system" was invented by Yumiko Kato (Osaka, Japan), Kenji Narumi (Osaka, Japan) and Yasuhisa Inada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance measurement device is used in a system including two or more distance measurement devices having distance measurement ranges that are adjacent to each other or partially overlap each other. The distance measurement device includes: a light emission device; a light reception device which detect reflected light and to outp...