US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics France, STMICROELECTRONICS (GRENOBLE 2) on Oct. 6 for "Time-of-flight sensor and method for adjusting an exposure time of such a sensor" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,297, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to STMicroelectronics France (Montrouge, France) and STMICROELECTRONICS (GRENOBLE 2) SAS (Grenoble, France).

"Time-of-flight sensor and method for adjusting an exposure time of such a sensor" was invented by Jeremie Teyssier (Grenoble, France), Antoine Drouot (Paris), Thibault Augey (Grenoble, France) and Valerie Pena-Laroche (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indirect time-of-flight measurement sensor includes a photosensitive pixel array configured to acquire a succession of images of a scene during a given exposure time. The sensor includes a control unit configured to control th...