US Patent Issued on July 22 for "Airborne and spaceborne imaging survey platform" (Monegasque, Monacan, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,447, issued on July 22.

"Airborne and spaceborne imaging survey platform" was invented by Stuart Nixon (Monaco, Monaco) and Max Christian Funck (Potsdam, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging survey platform utilizes imaging sensors arranged in one or more arcs to capture nadir and oblique views as required for photogrammetric processing into image maps and 3D surface maps, where a common primary lens subsystem is used by sensors within an arc. The primary lens subsystem can project onto a curved (e.g., spherical) surface rather than onto a planar surface. This solves a limiting first order optical problem for airborne or...