US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 6 for "Active optical sensor providing near and far field target detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,292, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Active optical sensor providing near and far field target detection" was invented by Tong Chen (Fremont, Calif.), Brandon J. Hui (San Francisco), Jianmin Gong (San Jose, Calif.), Mark T. Winkler (San Jose, Calif.), Runyu Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yazan Z Alnahhas (Stanford, Calif.) and Yohai Zmora (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensor module includes a module housing defining a first compartment having a first aperture and a second compartment having a second aperture, with the second aperture spaced apart from the first aperture. A set of...