ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,233, issued on May 27.
"Optical fuzzer" was invented by Robi Sen (Richland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine-learning system is trained to adapt light transmitted from an array of light emitters in order to disrupt a navigation system that employs a camera. Training comprises receiving image-processing outputs and/or navigation signals from the navigation system; configuring the array of light emitters to occupy a portion of a field of view of the camera; adapting a modulation pattern of light emitted by the array; and determining, from the image-processing outputs and/or navigation signals, if the modulation pattern af...