ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,097, issued on April 22, was assigned to ELBIT SYSTEMS LTD. (Haifa, Israel).

"Systems and methods for generating focused threedimensional (3D) point clouds" was invented by Yoav Ophir (Haifa, Israel), Dan Hakim (Haifa, Israel), Assaf David (Haifa, Israel) and Tamir Demri (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for generating a focused three-dimensional (3D) point cloud is disclosed. A respective 3D point cloud is generated based on returns of a respective sequence of energy pulses that is emitted towards one or more regions-of-interest (ROIs) within a field-of-view (FOV) during a respective scan of the FOV, t...