ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,178, issued on June 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Concentric architecture for optical sensing" was invented by Ueyn L. Block (Menlo Park, Calif.), Guocheng Shao (San Jose, Calif.), Itaru L. Hiromi (Cupertino, Calif.), Mathieu Charbonneau-LeFort (San Jose, Calif.) and Tobias J. Harrison-Noonan (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device including optical sensing with a concentric architecture and methods for operation thereof is disclosed. The concentric architecture can include light detector(s) arranged in a concentric manner around light emitter(s). In some examples, at least one light em...