ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,596, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Pattern projector" was invented by Refael Della Pergola (Jerusalem), Roei Remez (Tel Aviv, Israel), Assaf Avraham (Givatayim, Israel), Yuval Tsur (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yazan Alnahhas (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate and multiple arrays of emitters disposed on the semiconductor substrate and configured to emit beams of optical radiation. An optical substrate is mounted over the semiconductor substrate. An optical metasurface disposed on the optical substrate includes multiple opt...