ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,584, issued on March 17, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Light source monitoring" was invented by Zvika Veig (Raanana, Israel), Marko Mlinar (Horjul, Slovenia) and Guy Likver (Atlit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system such as an imaging system may include an illumination module. The illumination module may include a light source monitoring system. The light source monitoring system may sample a light source signal and aggregate the samples into data chunks. The light source monitoring system may selectively aggregate the data chunks to form groups of a monitoring time window....