US Patent Issued to Apple on April 29 for "Light source module with integrated ambient light sensing capability" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,534, issued on April 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Light source module with integrated ambient light sensing capability" was invented by Angelo M Alaimo (San Jose, Calif.), Shahrooz Shahparnia (Cupertino, Calif.) and Paul V. Johnson (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a light source module with one or more light emitters and one or more light sensors that share an aperture via which light passes. One of the light sensors may measure illuminance received through the aperture (not illuminance from the light emitters) and send a signal indicating a measurement of the illumi...