ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,371, issued on June 10, was assigned to Rebellion Photonics Inc. (Houston).
"Divided-aperture infra-red spectral imaging system" was invented by Robert Timothy Kester (Friendswood, Texas) and Nathan Adrian Hagen (Utsunomiya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments disclosed herein describe a divided-aperture infrared spectral imaging (DAISI) system that is adapted to acquire multiple IR images of a scene with a single-shot (also referred to as a snapshot). The plurality of acquired images having different wavelength compositions that are obtained generally simultaneously. The system includes at least two optical chan...