US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on March 24 for "Addressable projector for dot based direct time of flight depth sensing" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,021, issued on March 24, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Addressable projector for dot based direct time of flight depth sensing" was invented by Zhaoming Zhu (Redmond, Wash.), Michael Hall (Bellevue, Wash.), Augusto Ronchini Ximenes (Seattle), Shuochen Su (Bellevue, Wash.), Charles Patrick Saunders (Seattle) and Gregory Cohoon (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projector for illuminating a target area is presented. The projector includes an array of emitters having a plurality of subarrays and an optical assembly. Each subarray includes one or more independently addressable ch...