ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,655, issued on July 29, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Through-display time-of-flight (ToF) sensor" was invented by Robert John Gove (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Michael Charles Brading (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A depth sensing system including an electronic display, a light source, an array of optical sensing elements, and a depth map generator. The light source is configured to transmit periodic bursts of light in a field of view (FOV) of the depth sensing system. The array of optical sensing elements is disposed behind the electronic display and configured to detect light reflected from one o...