ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,579, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Energy-efficient adaptive 3D sensing" was invented by Jian Wang (West New York, N.J.), Sizhuo Ma (Long Island City, N.Y.), Brevin Tilmon (New York City, N.Y.), Yicheng Wu (Belmont, Mass.), Gurunandan Krishnan Gorumkonda (Kirkland, Wash.), Ramzi Zahreddine (Denver) and Georgios Evangelidis (Vienna).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy-efficient adaptive 3D sensing system. The adaptive 3D sensing system includes one or more cameras and one or more projectors. The adaptive 3D sensing system captures images of a real-world scene using the one or more cameras an...