US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 29 for "Motion tracking and image capturing using stylus devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,095, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Motion tracking and image capturing using stylus devices" was invented by Steven Sensarn (Milpitas, Calif.) and Miro Yakov Shverdin (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for motion tracking and image capture using a stylus device are described. Example embodiments involve a stylus device outputting/emitting light on a surface and receiving backscattered light at an event sensor of the stylus device. The event sensor may generate event data based in part on intensity of the received backscattered light. The stylus device ma...