US Patent Issued to MBDA FRANCE on May 13 for "Method and device for passive ranging by image processing" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,912, issued on May 13, was assigned to MBDA FRANCE (Le Plessis-Robinson, France).

"Method and device for passive ranging by image processing" was invented by Paul Dorbessan (Le Plessis-Robinson, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The device (1) for estimating the distance between an observer (2) and a target (4) using at least one image generated by a digital image generator (6) from the position (P1) of the observer (2) comprises a detection and identification unit configured to detect and identify a target (4) in the image at least from a predetermined list of known targets, an orientation estimation unit configured to determine...