US Patent Issued to The Penn State Research Foundation on July 22 for "Collision detector, collision detection system, and method of using same" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,783, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pa.).

"Collision detector, collision detection system, and method of using same" was invented by Saptarshi Das (State College, Pa.) and Darsith Jayachandran (State College, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact collision detector can be configured for low power operation to facilitate collision avoidance. In one embodiment, a nanoscale collision detector can be based on a photodetector, stacked on top of a non-volatile and programmable memory architecture that imitates the escape response of LGMD neuron at a frugal energy expenditure o...