US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 23 for "Photoacoustic sensor with light-steering system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,012, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Photoacoustic sensor with light-steering system" was invented by Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh (Cupertino, Calif.), Ali Lopez (Dublin, Calif.), Sumit Agrawal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bernard Herrera Soukup (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nicholas Buchan (San Jose, Calif.), Camilo Perez Saaibi (Dublin, Calif.), Legardo Reyes (Fremont, Calif.) and Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some disclosed examples involve controlling a light-steering system to direct light emitted by at least a first light source of a light source system to a first...