ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,591, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Distance measuring device, distance measuring method, program, electronic apparatus, learning model generating method, manufacturing method, and depth map generating method" was invented by Takafumi Fujita (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroaki Ono (Kanagawa, Japan), Hironaga Sano (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomoharu Mukasa (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a distance measuring device, a distance measuring method, a program, an electronic apparatus, a learning model generating method, a manufacturing method, a...