US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) on Sept. 1 for "Time-of-flight sensor" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,121, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS (Grenoble, France).

"Time-of-flight sensor" was invented by Romain Coffy (Voiron, France) and Younes Boutaleb (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-of-flight sensor includes a first light ray generation circuit and a second light ray reception circuit. A resin layer encapsulates the first light ray generation circuit and the second light ray reception circuit. A first region configured to emit light rays of the first light ray generation circuit is exposed at a surface of the resin layer. A second region configured to receive light rays of t...