ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,553, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to IGIANT OPTICS Co. LTD (Hsinchu Hsien, Taiwan).

"Sensing module" was invented by Zih-Ying Fang (Hsinchu Hsien, Taiwan), Jui-Hsiang Yen (Hsinchu Hsien, Taiwan) and Cheng-Huan Chen (Hsinchu Hsien, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing module including an illumination device and a sensing device is disclosed. The illumination device is configured to provide an illumination beam or sequentially provide multiple sub-beams having directivity to a sensing area respectively, and the sensing area includes multiple different sub-sensing areas. The sensing device is configured to receive multiple...