ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,882, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Ltd. (Marlow, Great Britain).
"Sparse under display LIDAR" was invented by Andreas Abmann (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to sample light including an array of light-sensitive pixels and a content display. The content display includes an array of content-display pixels; and an array of masking pixels individually selectable to switch between an opaque state and a transparent state, the array of masking pixels being aligned with the array of light-sensitive pixels so light-sensitive pixels may be selected to receive ...