ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,680, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and system for encoded optical communication using a modulated light source" was invented by Emanuele Mandelli (Mountain View, Calif.), Sai Harsha Jandhyala (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Walter Nistico (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that obtain information from a first electronic device (e.g., to improve interactions for a CGR environment). In some implementations at a second electronic device having a processor, event camera data is obtained corresponding to mod...