US Patent Issued to Apple on July 29 for "Optical communication system for position-finding of a portable electronic device in free space" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,592, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Optical communication system for position-finding of a portable electronic device in free space" was invented by Tong Chen (Fremont, Calif.) and Mark T. Winkler (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A optical communication system including a source device and an endpoint device. The source device include an array of laser diodes and is configured to drive the laser diodes to project a sequence of patterns into the field of view of the source device to define a set of serially-projected codes, each of which isolated to one respective angular division...