US Patent Issued to Apple on June 23 for "Systems and methods for detection of a surface material on optical components" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,752, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for detection of a surface material on optical components" was invented by Anup Rathi (Milpitas, Calif.), Mark Linder (Westminster, Colo.), Julia Benndorf (Mountain View, Calif.) and Duncan A. Mcroberts (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface material on one or more optical components of an optical sensing system can be detected. In some embodiments, a method of detection includes generating a first image using the optical sensing system. In accordance with a determination that one or more criteria are satisfied, the one or m...