US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 7 for "Laser pulse decoding using a sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,166, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Utah).

"Laser pulse decoding using a sensor" was invented by Minseok Oh (Santa Clara, Calif.), John Peter Godbaz (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Rui Jin (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using a sensor to perform laser signal decoding are disclosed. The sensor may be a global shutter sensor or a rolling shutter sensor. The sensor generates a first set of images while operating in a first mode. In response to detecting a laser signal in the first set of images, the sensor is caused to operate in a second mode. The laser signal...