ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,219, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to PixArt Imaging Inc. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
"Movement direction determination system and object volume computation system" was invented by Jeng-Yue Weng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Tzung-Min Su (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Feng-Chi Liu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in a movement direction determination system comprising a first detection region, a second detection region and a processing circuit. The first detection region and the second detection region respectively comprises an optical sensor. The processing circuit determines a movement direction of an object according to the opti...