ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,871, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Verity AG (Zurich).

"Systems and methods for processing time of flight sensor data" was invented by Anton Josef Ledergerber (Winterthur, Switzerland), Markus Florian Hehn (Zurich) and Tomislav Horvat (Baden, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for processing time of flight (ToF) data generated by a ToF camera. Such systems and methods may comprise receiving the ToF data comprising fine depth data and coarse depth data of an environment, processing the received coarse depth data in real time to generate one of a coarse three-dimensional (3D) representati...