US Patent Issued to AMS INTERNATIONAL on May 13 for "Optical proximity sensing with reduced pixel distortion" (Austrian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,195, issued on May 13, was assigned to AMS INTERNATIONAL AG (Jonas, Switzerland).

"Optical proximity sensing with reduced pixel distortion" was invented by Bernhard Greimel-Langover (Gleisdorf, Austria), Christian Halper (Olbendorf, Austria), Helmut Theiler (Lieboch, Austria), Herbert Lenhard (Graz, Austria), Josef Kriebernegg (Graz, Austria), Manuel Hoerbinger (Voitsberg, Austria), Peter Bliem (Premstaetten, Austria) and Whitney Hernandez (Murphy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an optical proximity sensor of a computer device having a display, where the optical proximity sensor is located beneath or other...