US Patent Issued to Zoox on March 17 for "Determining phase delay in time-of-flight sensors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,444, issued on March 17, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Determining phase delay in time-of-flight sensors" was invented by Yongzhe Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Robert Nicholas Moor (San Mateo, Calif.), Jonathan Solheim (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shaminda Subasingha (San Ramon, Calif.), He Yi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Wuyang Yu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining a phase delay of a received light signal are discussed herein. A vehicle may emit a continuous light signal from a ToF device. The ToF device may include a sensor receiver configured to receive the signal after the sig...