US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin on Nov. 11 for "Receiver encoded active optical compressive sensing" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,141, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Receiver encoded 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: "A system includes an optical source configured to generate an optical signal and illuminate a scene with the optical signal. A first spatial pattern generator comprising pixel elements is configured to form a mask, using the pixel elements, to mask a reflection of the optical signal received from the scene. A pattern controller is coupled to the first spatial pattern generator and configured to control the pixel eleme...