US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on Aug. 5 for "Device and method of capturing a projected dot pattern in a display device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,665, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Device and method of capturing a projected dot pattern in a display device" was invented by Frank Wippermann (Jena, Germany), Jacques Duparre (Jena, Germany) and Andreas Tunnermann (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a plurality of imaging optical channels inclined in relation to one another, each of which includes an optic and at least one detector pixel arrangement. The plurality of optical channels are configured to obtain an image of a dot pattern of a field of view by imaging said fiel...