ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,381, issued on June 17, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"3D sensing" was invented by David Richards (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Joshua Carr (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present techniques provide apparatus and methods for generating a three-dimensional (3D) representation of a scene (also known as 3D sensing) using a time-of-flight imaging system. In particular, the present techniques provide an apparatus comprising a time-of-flight imaging camera system that emits illumination having a spatially-nonuniform intensity over a fie...