ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,545, issued on April 15, was assigned to OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Optoelectronic sensor component for measuring light with built-in redundancy" was invented by Andrey Lysov (Regensburg, Germany) and Tim Boescke (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic sensor component for measuring light may include a first signal channel, a second signal channel, a first light-sensitive detection assembly, a second light-sensitive detection assembly, a further light-sensitive detection assembly, and an assigned further signal channel. The first signal channel may provide a first electrical si...