ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,405, issued on April 8, was assigned to PixArt Imaging Inc. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Multiple detection system" was invented by Han-Lin Chiang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Shih-Feng Chen (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Yen-Min Chang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Ning Shyu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Chih-Wei Huang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiple detection system is applied to a vehicle and includes a contact-type detection module adapted to generate a contact-type detection datum, a contactless-type detection module adapted to generate a contactless-type detection datum, and an operation processor electrically connected with the contact-type det...