ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,075, issued on May 27, was assigned to Bandwidth 10 LTD. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Systems including one or more VCSELs, for receiving a three dimensional (3D) map of at least a part of a body of a user" was invented by Carlos Fernando Rondina Mateus (Berkeley, Calif.), Christopher Chase (Berkeley, Calif.), Michael C. Y. Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Murat Serbay (Berlin), Stefano Prandoni (Berlin) and Philip Worland (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided to receive a three dimensional (3D) map of at least a part of a body of a user. A light emitting device is included with tunable VCSEL laser with one or more...