US Patent Issued to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES on April 8 for "Systems for determining elevations of skin features" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,053, issued on April 8, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Systems for determining elevations of skin features" was invented by Layne Christopher Price (Seattle), Ilia Vitsnudel (Even Yehuda, Israel), David Heckerman (Bellevue, Wash.), Adrian Napoles (Bellevue, Wash.), Christopher Raymond Grajewski (Sammamish, Wash.), Patrick Chow (Issaquah, Wash.) and Andreas Caduff (Clyde Hill, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device may compress the skin of a user when worn, which may affect values determined using sensors of the device. To determine the effect of skin compression on the values, a time-of-flight si...