US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on March 3 for "Lighting device and distance measurement apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,266, issued on March 3, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Lighting device and distance measurement 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: "A lighting device includes: a light-emitting element having multiple first light-emitting sections and multiple second light-emitting sections; a first optical member that causes multiple pieces of first light outputted from the multiple first light-emitting sections and multiple pieces of second light outputted fr...