ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,199, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Garmin International Inc. (Olathe, Kan.).

"Enhanced flight vision system" was invented by Alexander J. Litzau (Olathe, Kan.), Iain P. Gillan (Olathe, Kan.), Noah R. Larson (Overland Park, Kan.), Ryan R. Johnson (Kansas City, Mo.), Daniel J. Croft (Shawnee, Kan.) and Steven A. Stringfellow (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enhanced vision system comprising a camera, a memory, and a processor. The camera configured to capture video of a field of view and output a plurality of frames, each frame including a respective sensor pixel value for each of a plurality of sensor pixels...