ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,140, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Science Applications International Corp. (Reston, Va.).

"System and method for video image registration and/or providing supplemental data in a heads up display" was invented by John Richard Scales (Huntsville, Ala.), Michael Harris Rodgers (Huntsville, Ala.) and Mark D. Hose (Huntsville, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video sources and inertial sensors are attached to a weapon and to goggles. A computer receives video images from the weapon- and goggles-mounted sources and inertial data from the sensors. The computer calculates a location for an image from the weapon-mounted source within...