ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,586, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to VoxelSensors SRL (Brussels).

"Three dimensional imaging system" was invented by Ward Van Der Tempel (Keerbergen, Belgium), Johannes Willem Peeters (Antwerp, Belgium), Andre Bernard Miodezky (Uccle, Belgium) and Christian Mourad (Genval, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Depth imaging system implementing the method of any of the previous claims comprising: a. an imaging device (4) comprising a matrix of pixels (1) each pixel comprising a photodetector (9) capable of detecting single photons impinging thereon and optics able to make an image of the field of view on the matrix of pixel (1), s...