ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,663, issued on June 17, was assigned to FLIR Unmanned Aerial Systems AS (Hvalstad, Norway).

"Light emitting device positional tracking for mobile platforms" was invented by Matias Varnum Christensen (Hvalstad, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Light emitting device positional tracking systems and methods are provided. In one example, a method includes receiving images captured of a target location comprising a plurality of light emitting devices, where each of the light emitting devices has an associated blinking pattern. The method may further include detecting the blinking pattern for each of the light emitting devices in the i...