ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,018, issued on May 13, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Biometric detection using photodetector array" was invented by Dongeek Shin (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Paul Joseph Silberschatz (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device, such as a wearable device, may include a light source and a photodetector array. The photodetector array may be used to determine a touch event of a user that occurs during a time interval. A subset of the plurality of photodetectors associated with the touch event may provide detection signals at each of a plurality of times within the time interval, which may be aggre...