US Patent Issued to UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS on May 5 for "Integrated bound-mode angular sensors" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,974, issued on May 5, was assigned to UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Integrated bound-mode angular sensors" was invented by Steven R.J. Brueck (Albuquerque, N.M.), Payman Zarkesh-Ha (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Alexander Neumann (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An angular sensitive time-of-flight position sensor device is provided and includes an array of pixels each comprising: a planar waveguide structure; a collection area with a grating pattern at a specific periodicity to couple incident light into the planar waveguide structure; at least one detector placed outside of the collection area and in a pla...