ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,239, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Alphacore Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Event-based sensor system and method for operating an event-based sensor system" was invented by Esko Mikkola (Mesa, Ariz.) and Phaneendra Bikkina (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Event-based sensor systems and method for operating event-based sensor systems are disclosed. A sensor system includes an array of sensor elements arranged in columns and rows, wherein each sensor element in the array of sensor elements includes, a detector circuit, an active pixel sensor (APS) circuit, and a dynamic vision sensor (DVS) circuit, the DVS circuit including an ...