ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,213, issued on Nov. 4.

"Multiplexed photon emitter and camera configuration for an image acquisition device" was invented by Yigal Katzir (Rishon Lezion, Israel), Ilia Lutsker (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Elie Meimoun (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image acquisition device including a first plurality of cameras arranged in a mutually spaced configuration, each having a field of view, each field of view lying in a plane and a second plurality of photon emitters arranged in a multiplicity of generally circumferential arrangements about each camera of the first plurality of cameras, at least one photon emitter within the general...