US Patent Issued to Apple on May 12 for "Systems and apparatus for object detection using optical sensing" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,573, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and apparatus for object detection using optical sensing" was invented by Yuta Kuboyama (San Mateo, Calif.), Christopher M. Dodson (Denver), Prashanth Holenarsipur (Los Altos, Calif.), Serhan O. Isikman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Brian R. Land (Woodside, Calif.) and Anant Rai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device comprises: a housing; a cover material; a crown; a processor; and an optical proximity sensor comprising: a first light emitter; a second light emitter; and one or more light detectors. The one or more light detectors com...