ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,380, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Tainan, Taiwan).

"3D sensing system" was invented by Min-Chian Wu (Tainan, Taiwan), Pen-Hsin Chen (Tainan, Taiwan), Ching-Wen Wang (Tainan, Taiwan), Cheng-Che Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan) and Ting-Sheng Hsu (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D sensing system is provided. The 3D sensing system includes a first sensing device, a second sensing device and a controller. The first sensing device provides at least one first emitting light and receives a first sensing signal based on a first sensing timing. The second sensing device provides at least one second emittin...