US Patent Issued to Teledyne FLIR Defense on Nov. 25 for "Lightweight laser designator systems and methods" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,763, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Teledyne FLIR Defense Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Lightweight laser designator systems and methods" was invented by Matthew Titensor (Orem, Utah), Nathan Knoebel (Orem, Utah) and Jerel B. Nielsen (Orem, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Laser designator systems (laser designator systems) and related techniques are provided to improve the operational flexibility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A laser designator system includes an imaging module configured to image a scene according to a first field of view (FOV) of the imaging module; a laser spot tracker configured to detect a plurali...