ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,897, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to BROGENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).
"Platform through-beam sensor device" was invented by Guo-Sen Lian (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Shao-Hua Tsai (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Cheng-Lin Huang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Chih-Huang Wang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platform through-beam sensor device includes a transmitter module and a receiver module. A light emitted by a light-emitting element of the transmitter module is shaped into a light pattern range by a transmitter mask. A range of the light received by a light-receiving element of the receiver modu...