ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,052, issued on July 15, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Integrated filter optical package" was invented by Steven Alfred Kummerl (Carrollton, Texas), Simon Joshua Jacobs (Allen, Texas), James Richard Huckabee (Sherman, Texas), Jo Bito (Dallas) and Rongwei Zhang (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated filter optical package including an ambient light sensor that incorporates an infrared (IR) filter in an integrated circuit (IC) stacked-die configuration is provided. The integrated filter optical package incorporates an infrared (IR) coated glass layer to filter out or block IR light while allowing ...