ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,088, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to THALES (Meudon, France).

"Airborne measurement system comprising a SPAD camera" was invented by Gilles Genevrier (Valence, France), Warody Lombardi (Valence, France) and Sebastien Legoll (Valence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airborne measurement system borne by an aircraft, and comprising a plurality of conventional navigational-aid sensors generating data referred to as conventional data, at least one SPAD camera comprising a single-photon avalanche diode matrix-array detector and generating SPAD data comprising a first image and a second image of a scene to be observed, the system ...