ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,496, issued on June 9, was assigned to BEIJING VOYAGER TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Light concentrating device for optical sensing systems" was invented by Yue Lu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Youmin Wang (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide an optical sensing device for a receiver in an optical sensing system. The optical sensing device includes a light concentrator configured to collect a light beam. The light concentrator includes an input aperture configured to collect the light beam, an output aperture configured to output the light beam, and a side surface in contact with the in...