ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,120, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ams Sensors Germany GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Sectional multi spectral sensor with optical blurring" was invented by Gunter Siess (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Chen Li (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Alessandro Piotto (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first aspect of the disclosure there is provided a multi-spectral optical sensor comprising: a monolithic semiconductor chip defining a plurality of subarrays of optical detector regions, each array comprising the same number and relative spatial arrangement of optical detector regions; a plurality of optical filters; and a plurality...