ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,214, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and Oliver Crispin Robotics Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain).

"Pulse illumination imaging of a target element" was invented by Vamshi Krishna Reddy Kommareddy (Bangalore, India), Biswajit Medhi (Bangalore, India), Andrew Crispin Graham (Badminton, Great Britain), Walter V. Dixon (Delanson, N.Y.) and James Vradenburg Miller (Clifton Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulse illumination imaging system is provided. The system includes an image sensor, a light source, and a controller. The image sensor includes a plurality of light sensitive pixel elemen...