ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,291, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DARWIN PRECISIONS Corp. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).
"Non-contact switch and control system thereof" was invented by chih-hung Liu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Ya-Han Ko (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Ran-Shiou You (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Hsing-Yu Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-contact switch and a non-contact switch control system are provided. The non-contact switch control system includes multiple non-contact switches, each including an infrared light module, a brightness sensing unit, a second switch module and a processing unit. The infrared light module incl...