ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,811, issued on Nov. 25.

"System and method for illumination source identification" was invented by Jakov Tutavac (Opuzen, Croatia) and Dubravko Babic (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection module has N optical channels, each with an optical filter, a detector, and an amplifier; and an Nx1 switch with N input ports each connected to one corresponding output port of each channel to receive an amplified detector output corresponding to a filtered optical intensity incident on that detector. The switch cycles between channels, connecting each amplified detector output in turn to the output port. An ADC samples...