US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Aug. 25 for "Optimized mirror-based light focusing for optical sensor assembly" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,834, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Optimized mirror-based light focusing for optical sensor assembly" was invented by Usman Chowdhury (Santa Clara, Calif.), Farzad Houshmand (San Jose, Calif.), Sumit Subhash Singh (Mumbai, India) and Amir H. Bayati (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed systems include a mirror having multiple optical sections positioned about an axis of the mirror. Each optical section includes an opening leading to a respective section of a light sensor and configured to collect a portion of an incident beam of light. The focal distance of the ...