US Patent Issued to HTC on Oct. 20 for "Detection device and detection method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,982, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HTC Corp. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Detection device and detection method" was invented by Chun-Yih Wu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Ta-Chun Pu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Chien-Chih Chen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Yen-Liang Kuo (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device includes a sound generator, an optical transmitter, a compound waveguide, an optical receiver, a processor, and a housing element. The sound generator generates a sound signal. The optical transmitter generates an incident light signal. The compound waveguide transmits the sound signal and the incident light s...