US Patent Issued to VALEO COMFORT AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE on May 13 for "Flight time sensor and surveillance system comprising such a sensor" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,393, issued on May 13, was assigned to VALEO COMFORT AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE (Creteil, France).

"Flight time sensor and surveillance system comprising such a sensor" was invented by Sylvain Beaudoin (Creteil, France), Sebastien Trapani (Creteil, France) and Frederic Autran (Creteil, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a flight time sensor (10) comprising:-a lighting device (11) comprising a light source (12) which emits a source beam (13) in the direction of a scene (3) comprising an object (4) which is capable of reflecting the source beam;-a detector (15) comprising a matrix (16) of photo-sensitive pixels ...