US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 15 for "Determining user proximity using ambient light sensor" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,544, issued on April 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Determining user proximity using ambient light sensor" was invented by Eliyahu Barel (Rosh-HaAyin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example provides a display device comprising a display panel, a touch sensor, an ambient light sensor, a processor, and storage. The storage comprises instructions executable by the processor to monitor an ambient light signal received from the ambient light sensor, detect, in combination with a call event, a threshold change in the ambient light signal that is indicative of the display device being pro...