US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Oct. 27 for "Optical module and distance measuring device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,071, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Resolution is improved while suppressing the number of light emitting elements disposed in an optical module. In the optical module, the light emission unit has a multi-array structure based on a structure in which the light emitting elements are respectively disposed at vertexes forming a quadrangle of which sides facin...