ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,195, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to HTC Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Projector and sensing system used therefor" was invented by Shih Hong Sun (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chih Pin Chung (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projector includes a light source and a diffractive optical element. The light source has a first light emitting area and a second light emitting area. The diffractive optical element is disposed on the light source. The diffractive optical element has a first diffraction structure and a second diffraction structure respectively overlapped with the first light emitting area and the second light emitting area,...