ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,959, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sesame AI Inc. (San Francisco).

"Object tracking system using a differential camera" was invented by Robert Konrad Konrad (San Francisco), Kevin Conlon Boyle (San Francisco) and Gordon Wetzstein (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracking system for object detection and tracking. The system may include a plurality of light sources, a differential camera, and a controller. The plurality of light sources is positioned at different locations on a device and are configured to emit pulses of light that illuminate an object. The differential camera has an optical axis, and at least s...