US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on June 30 for "Optical module and distance measuring apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,584, issued on June 30, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Optical module and distance measuring apparatus" was invented by Takashi Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Motoi Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuya Oiwa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jialun Xu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an optical module that irradiates an object with a light beam and detects reflected light thereof, a linear light beam without distortion is emitted regardless of an incident angle of a scanned light beam.The light emitting unit includes a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a predetermined direction. ...