ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,826, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"System and method for calibrating the light sensitivity of a camera" was invented by Jason S. Damazo (Seattle), Dejan Nikic (Seattle), Dominic Martinez (Shoreline, Wash.), Shahriar Khosravani (Everett, Wash.) and Philipp Andreas Boettcher (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for calibrating the light sensitivity of a camera includes a light emitter for emitting a light pulse, a fiber splitter for receiving the light pulse via an input port and providing first and second portions of the light pulse to respective first and second output ports, a...