US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Sensor system based on stacked sensor layers" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,389, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Sensor system based on stacked sensor layers" was invented by Xinqiao Liu (Medina, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor assembly for determining one or more features of a local area is presented herein. The sensor assembly includes a plurality of stacked sensor layers. A first sensor layer of the plurality of stacked sensor layers located on top of the sensor assembly includes an array of pixels. The top sensor layer can be configured to capture one or more images of light reflected from one or more objects in the local area. The sen...