ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,605, issued on March 3, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Time-of-flight system and method" was invented by Lukas Mauch (Stuttgart, Germany), Bac Nguyen Cong (Stuttgart, Germany) and Fabien Cardinaux (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising a latency predictor which is configured to translate the output of a transformer-encoder into a latency prediction for a code segment of a source code."

The patent was filed on Feb. 3, 2023, under Application No. 18/105,247.

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