ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,742, issued on July 21, was assigned to AMS-OSRAM ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Sensing system and method" was invented by Francesco Paolo D'Aleo (Samstagern, Switzerland), Peter Roentgen (Thalwil, Switzerland), Kotaro Ishizaki (Zurich) and Nicola Spring (Oberterzen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing system may include a first coded aperture configured to receive incident light and transmit a coded image of an object. The sensing system comprises a light replication component configured to detect the coded image and emit a replicated coded image. The sensing system may include a second coded aperture configu...