ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,480, issued on April 8, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).
"Multiuse optical sensor" was invented by Shrenik Deliwala (Andover, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more electromagnetic radiation sources, such as a light emitting diode, may emit electromagnetic waves into a volume of space. When an object enters the volume of space, the electromagnetic waves may reflect off the object and strike one or more position sensitive detectors after passing through an imaging optical system such as glass, plastic lens, or a pinhole located at known distances from the sources. Mixed signal electronics may process ...