US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) on Aug. 4 for "Time of flight sensing unit having reconfigurable or logic" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,865, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Ltd. (Marlow, Great Britain).

"Time of flight sensing unit having reconfigurable or logic" was invented by Bruce Rae (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Neale Dutton (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a time-of-flight unit with a laser emitting ranging light toward a scene, and a detector detecting ranging light reflected from the scene. The detector includes photodetection regions of macropixels. Each macropixel includes photodiodes, and OR logic circuitry receiving outputs of photodiodes as input and gene...