US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Dec. 16 for "Laser drive apparatus, pulse width adjusting method, and sensing module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,391, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Laser drive apparatus, pulse width adjusting method, and sensing module" was invented by Takashi Masuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Mitsushi Tabata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Koichi Okamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By eliminating the need to use a high-precision clock in pulse width detection for pulse width adjustment in a case where light-emitting elements as vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers are pulse-driven, circuit configuration is simplified and cost is reduced. A laser drive apparatus according to the present technolog...