US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on March 31 for "Transmit signal design for an optical distance measurement system" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,049, issued on March 31, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Transmit signal design for an optical distance measurement system" was invented by Nirmal C. Warke (Saratoga, Calif.), David P. Magee (Allen, Texas) and Baher S. Haroun (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical transmitting system for distance measuring includes a signal generator, a laser diode coupled to the signal generator, and an optics device. The signal generator is configured to generate a first plurality of electrical signals. The laser diode is configured to generate a first plurality of optical waveforms that correspond with the first...