ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,791, issued on March 24, was assigned to ams Sensors Germany GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Compensation of optical alignment issues for sectored-view multi-spectral optical sensors" was invented by Gunter Siess (Kraftsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-spectral optical sensor comprises a plurality of apertures, a plurality of lens arrangements, a plurality of optical filters and a monolithic semiconductor chip defining a plurality of sub-arrays of optical detector regions, each sub-array comprising the same number and relative spatial arrangement of optical detector regions and the optical detector regions of each sub-arr...