ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,261, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for reducing stray light interference in optical systems" was invented by Samuel Richard Wilton (Levittown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing optical interference in an optical sensor including detecting, by an optical sensor device comprising a plurality of pixel sensors, a signal with a reflected light component and a stray light component, estimating, by a processor, a stray light intensity in each pixel of the plurality of pixel sensors using a point spread function obtained by emitting a reference light sig...