US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Sept. 15 for "Laser drive device, sensing module, and timing adjustment method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,674, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Laser drive device, sensing module, and timing adjustment method" 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: "Provided is a laser drive device including a drive circuit that drives a light emitting element by a vertical cavity surface emitting laser to emit light on the basis of a drive control signal, an assist circuit that short-circuits both ends of the light emitting element on the basis of an assist control signal to speed up a ...