ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,432, issued on July 21, was assigned to Artilux Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Multi-application optical sensing apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Chih-Wei Yeh (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Hung-Chih Chang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Yun-Chung Na (San Jose, Calif.), Tsung-Ting Wu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Shu-Lu Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for multi-application optical sensing are provided. For example, an optical sensing apparatus can include a photodetector array, a first circuitry, and a second circuitry. The photodetector array includes a plurality of photode...