ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,743, issued on April 21, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Device, measuring device, distance measuring system, and method" was invented by Kyoji Yokoyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device according to the present disclosure is provided. The device includes a model switching unit. The model switching unit switches a machine learning model used for recognizing information about a distance to a measurement object based on an output signal output from a light receiving element when the light receiving element receives light emitted from a light source and reflected by the meas...