ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,326, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Imaging array with directional response" was invented by Roei Remez (Tel Aviv, Israel), Brian McCall (San Jose, Calif.), Milan Maksimovic (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Maoz Ovadia (Kiryat Ono, Israel), Arnaud Laflaquiere (Paris), Gershon Rosenblum (Fremont, Calif.), Noah D Bedard (Los Gatos, Calif.), Omer Korech (Pardes Hanna Karkur, Israel), Emanuel Mordechai (Mishmarot, Israel), Keith Lyon (San Jose, Calif.), Refael Della Pergola (Jerusalem) and Niv Gilboa (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensing device includes a detector assembly, which inclu...