ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,912, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Integrated spot and flood illumination projector" was invented by Yuval Tsur (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Roey Zuitlin (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Refael Della Pergola (Jerusalem), Maoz Ovadia (Kiryat Ono, Israel), Roei Remez (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yaron Gross (Netanya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic apparatus includes a substrate and first and second arrays of emitters disposed on the substrate and configured to emit respective first and second beams of optical radiation. The apparatus further includes an optical metasurface disposed on the ...