US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 20 for "Monitoring activity with depth and multi-spectral camera" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,887, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Monitoring activity with depth and multi-spectral camera" was invented by Sergio Ortiz Egea (San Jose, Calif.), Riaz Imdad Ali (Fremont, Calif.), Michael Scott Fenton (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Onur Can Akkaya (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera system. The camera system includes a sensor array; an infrared (IR) illumination system configured to emit active IR light in an IR light sub-band; a spectral illumination system configured to emit active spectral light in a spectral light sub-band; one or more logic machines; and...