ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,440, issued on July 15, was assigned to Teledyne FLIR Defense Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Situational awareness-based image annotation systems and methods" was invented by Bruce Poirier (North Billerica, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for facilitating situational awareness-based annotation systems and methods are provided. In one example, a method includes receiving a respective image from each of a plurality of imaging systems. The method further includes generating a panoramic image based on the images received from the plurality of imaging devices. The method further includes detecting an object in the panorami...