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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2020
M&r Technology, Llc, San Diego, CA (US);
Magid Fazel, San Diego, CA (US);
Jerker Taudien, Burlington, VT (US);
M&R TECHNOLOGY, LLC, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are systems comprising: a transmitter background; a receiver background; a plurality of transmitter units affixed on the transmitter background, each transmitting an encoded electromagnetic wave (EM), wherein the electromagnetic wave is transmitted as a wide beam; and a plurality of receiver units affixed on the receiver background, wherein each of the plurality of the transmitter units is in electromagnetic communication with at least one of the receiver units. Also disclosed are methods of identifying the presence of an object intersecting a spatial surface, the methods comprising: transmitting a plurality of coded wide beams, optionally non-simultaneously, using a plurality of transmitter units, each wide beam transmitted by a transmitter unit; receiving the plurality of the coded wide beams by a plurality of receiver units, each receiver unit receiving two or more of the plurality of the coded wide beams; determining if at least one receiver unit did not receive at least one coded wide beam; and sending a code identifying that an object is intersecting a spatial surface. Further, a housing for the system is disclosed.