ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,721, issued on April 21, was assigned to SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany).
"Optoelectronic sensor" was invented by Christoph Menzel (Denzlingen, Germany), Frederick Bockling (Freiburg, Germany) and Dominic Ruh (Freiburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic sensor includes a plurality of light sources for generating transmission light, including at least a first and a second light source. The optoelectronic sensor includes transmission optics for projecting transmission light into the field of view and at least one detector for detecting transmission light reflected by the object. A photonic network has a plurality o...