ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,409, issued on July 29, was assigned to Teledyne FLIR Commercial Systems Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Radiometric thermal imaging improvements for navigation systems and methods" was invented by Sean Tauber (Ventura, Calif.) and James A. Goodland (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thermal imaging and navigation systems and related techniques are provided to improve the operation of manned or unmanned mobile platforms, including passenger vehicles. A system includes a thermal imaging device configured to be mounted on a vehicle. The thermal imaging device is configured to, when mounted on the vehicle, capture a first image of a...