US Patent Issued to Magic Leap on June 23 for "Depth sensing techniques for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality systems" (Florida, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,145, issued on June 23, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Depth sensing techniques for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality systems" was invented by Brian Keith Smith (Wellington, Fla.), Koon Keong Shee (Miramar, Fla.) and Gregory Michael Link (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for operating a depth sensor are discussed. A first sequence of operation steps and a second sequence of operation steps can be stored in memory on the depth sensor to define, respectively, a first depth sensing mode of operation and a second depth sensing mode of operation. In response to a first request for depth m...