US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Readout methods for foveated sensing" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,850, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Readout methods for foveated sensing" was invented by Andrew Samuel Berkovich (Sammamish, Wash.), Jack Thomas Lavier (Sammamish, Wash.), Reid Frederick Pinkham (Bellevue, Wash.) and Shlomo Alkalay (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and readout methods for foveated sensing may include a pixel array, readout circuitry, and processing logic. The pixel array may have a number of pixels. The readout circuitry may be configured to read image data from the pixel array for each of the plurality of pixels. The processing logic ma...