US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Multi-mode sensor assembly for light detection" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,876, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Multi-mode sensor assembly for light detection" was invented by Andrew Samuel Berkovich (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-mode sensor assembly is described. The sensor assembly includes a first die and a second die. The first die includes a pixel array composed of color pixels that detect light in one or more color channels and sparse pixels. The color pixels and the sparse pixels are arranged to form macro pixels, and each macro pixel includes a respective subset of the color pixels and a respective subset of the sp...