ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,181, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NEARMAP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD. (Barangaroo, Australia).

"Hyper camera with shared mirror" was invented by David Arnold Bleads (Tennyson, Australia), James Austin Besley (Killara, Australia) and Mark Harold Tarlinton (Marrickville, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a camera configured to capture a set of oblique images along a scan path on an object area; a scanning mirror structure including at least one surface for receiving light from the object area, the at least one surface having at least one first mirror portion at least one second portion comprised ...