ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,152, issued on March 18, was assigned to TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY (Espoo, Finland).

"System for providing stealthy vision" was invented by Santeri Jeremias Seppa (VTT, Finland), Teemu Kaariainen (VTT, Finland) and Thomas Fordell (VTT, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing stealthy vision, includes a source element providing electromagnetic radiation at a predetermined wavelength to illuminate a target; and a camera imaging the target to be illuminated; wherein the source element provides electromagnetic radiation including shortwave infrared light; and wherein the predetermined wavelength includes a ...