US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Aug. 25 for "Mode sequencer circuitry and mode sequencing method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,193, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Mode sequencer circuitry and mode sequencing method" was invented by Luc Bossuyt (Stuttgart, Germany), Varun Arora (Stuttgart, Germany), Rachit Mohan (Stuttgart, Germany), Gaetan Koers (Stuttgart, Germany) and Marc Pauwels (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mode sequencer circuitry for a time-of-flight system, the time-of-flight system including at least an imaging unit and an illumination unit, the imaging unit having a data bus interface for transmitting data to an application processor over a data bus."

The patent was ...