ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,539, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (San Diego).
"Systems and methods of imaging and/or range finding" was invented by Patrick R. Mickel (San Diego), Drew F. DeJarnette (San Diego) and Matthew C. Cristina (Oceanside, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, systems are provided to determine distances to one or more objects, and comprise an image capture system; an angular movement system; an illumination source providing illumination having a time varying amplitude; and a range measurement circuit configured to: obtain, based on at least one of measured and induced LOS a...