ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,180, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Connected epitaxial optical sensing systems" was invented by Alfredo Bismuto (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David I. Simon (San Francisco) and Jason Pelc (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device including a plurality of epitaxial chips is disclosed. An epitaxial chip can have one or more of a light source and a detector, where the detector can be configured to measure the optical properties of the light emitted by a light source. In some examples, one or more epitaxial chips can have one or more optical properties that differ from other epitaxial chips. T...