ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,208, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AXIS AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method for controlling infrared illumination source" was invented by Stefan Lundberg (Lund, Sweden), Kajsa Larsson (Lund, Sweden) and Kent Fransson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a video capturing system for controlling at least one infrared (IR) illumination source, illuminating an area captured by a camera, the method comprising modulating emission from the IR illumination source between first and second emission intensities at a first frequency during a first predetermined time period. Upon capturing images using an image sensor of the camera...