US Patent Issued to THE AEROSPACE on Feb. 18 for "Polarization-aided image contrast enhancement with rotating polarization element and control software" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,727, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to THE AEROSPACE Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Polarization-aided image contrast enhancement with rotating polarization element and control software" was invented by Sloane J. Wiktorowicz (Long Beach, Calif.), David J. Gutierrez (Long Beach, Calif.) and Kirk B. Crawford (Lomita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polarization-aided image contrast enhancement is disclosed. A rotatable polarizing element (e.g., a linear polarizer, waveplate and static polarization analyzer, etc.) may be inserted in front of an imaging camera (e.g., between the optics and camera of a telescope) to suppress a signif...