ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,637, issued on April 8, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).
"Active optical compressive sensing" was invented by Joseph Robert Buck Jr. (Superior, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active optical compressive sensing system includes an optical source to generate light for illuminating a target and a pattern generator to generate a pattern. A pattern controller controls an operation of the pattern generator to cause generation of a desired pattern. The pattern is a spatial filtering pattern that enables data compression by generating sparse scattered data. Applying the pattern allows a logarithmic resource scal...