ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,171, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to AMS SENSORS GERMANY GMBH (Jena, Germany).
"Multi-spectral optical sensor and system" was invented by Gunter Siess (Kraftsdorf, Germany), Volker Mannheim (Berlin), Holger Pless (Bienstadt, Germany) and Julius Komma (Jena, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monolithic semiconductor chip defines a plurality of subarrays of optical detector regions, wherein each subarray of optical detector regions includes a corresponding plurality of optical detector regions and wherein each subarray of optical detector regions has the same relative spatial arrangement of optical detector regions as each of t...