US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 9 for "Optical positioning systems and methods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,736, issued on June 9, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Optical positioning systems and methods" was invented by Ting Li (Allen, Texas), Rahmi Hezar (Allen, Texas), Srinath Mathur Ramaswamy (Murphy, Texas), Anand Dabak (Plano, Texas) and Baher Haroun (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical position sensing system is disclosed. The system includes a substrate having a surface. A plurality of photodetectors are at multiple locations across the surface, each of the plurality of photodetectors providing detector pulse signals in response to receiving the light. The system further includes a processor that ...