US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Dec. 9 for "Multi-spectral and panchromatic imaging apparatus and associated system and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,120, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Multi-spectral and panchromatic imaging apparatus and associated system and method" was invented by David R. Gerwe (West Hills, Calif.) and Friedrich W. Kunzler (Hacienda Heights, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture apparatus comprises a focal plane array having a first portion and a second portion and a plurality of detectors. The image capture apparatus further comprises a filter device coupled with the covering the first portion of the focal plane array, the filter device comprising at least a first bandpass filter, comprising a first freque...