US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 28 for "Optical sensor module including an interferometric sensor and extended depth of focus optics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,890, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Optical sensor module including an interferometric sensor and extended depth of focus optics" was invented by Tong Chen (Fremont, Calif.), Ahmet Fatih Cihan (San Jose, Calif.), Daryl I. Vulis (San Francisco) and Mingzhou Jin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensor module includes an interferometric sensor and a set of one or more optical elements. The interferometric sensor includes a coherent light source and at least one detector configured to generate an interferometric signal. The set of one or more optical elements is configured t...