US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Sept. 29 for "Optical sensing systems" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,211, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Optical sensing systems" was invented by John A. Wheatley (Stillwater, Minn.), Raghunath Padiyath (Woodbury, Minn.), Gilles J. Benoit (Minneapolis), Michael D. Holden (River Falls, Wis.), Martin J. Sisolak (St. Paul, Minn.), Travis L. Potts (Woodbury, Minn.) and Jincy Jose (Eagan, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensing system includes an optical film and a transceiver configured to at least 5 one of emit and receive a first light toward an object through the optical film along a propagation direction making a first angle of gre...