US Patent Issued to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES on April 7 for "System for mitigation of sensor veiling glare" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,197, issued on April 7, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"System for mitigation of sensor veiling glare" was invented by Aravindhan Kumarasamy Krishnan (San Jose, Calif.), Shreekant Gayaka (Fremont, Calif.) and Isabella Talley Lewis (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous mobile device (AMD) may use an indirect time of flight (iTOF) sensor to acquire depth information about a physical space. This sensor may experience veiling glare in which multipath interference results in incorrect output of false objects that are not actually present in the physical space. A frame of depth data from the iT...