US Patent Issued to STMicroeletronics France, STMicroeletronics, STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) on Feb. 17 for "Method of detecting presense of an object using a time of flight sensor" (British, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,016, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to STMicroeletronics France (Montrouge, France), STMicroeletronics Inc. (Coppell, Texas) and STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Ltd. (Marlow, Great Britain).

"Method of detecting presense of an object using a time of flight sensor" was invented by Olivier Pothier (Sceaux, France), Philippe Legeard (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Donald Baxter (Stirling, Great Britain) and Edward Hawkins (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can be used to detect the presence an object within a field of view of a time-of-flight sensor. A histogram generated by the time-of-flight sensor is ...