US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on June 30 for "Distance measuring device and distance measuring method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,572, issued on June 30, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Distance measuring device and distance measuring method" was invented by Takayuki Hirabayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance measuring device includes: a communication processing unit that performs first radio communication using right-handed circularly polarized waves and second radio communication using left-handed circularly polarized waves as communication for distance measurement using a phase-based method with another device; and a distance measuring unit that measures a distance to the other device based o...