ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,509, issued on May 20, was assigned to AMS SENSORS BELGIUM BVBA (Berchem, Belgium).

"Sensor arrangement and method of producing a sensor arrangement" was invented by Maarten Pennings (Waalre, Netherlands) and Johan De Meulder (Kessel, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor arrangement includes a first, second, third and fourth group of receiving elements for detecting light in the red, green, blue and infrared wavelength range. At least one first sub-arrangement is formed by arranging one receiving element of the first group, two receiving elements of the second group and one receiving element of the third group in a first B...