US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Nov. 18 for "Active hyperspectral imaging and ranging" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,210, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Active hyperspectral imaging and ranging" was invented by Michael K. Yetzbacher (Burke, Va.), Samuel D. Park (North Bethesda, Md.) and Vasanthi Sivaprakasam (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for remote sensing in a plurality of dimensions simultaneously are provided. The plurality of dimensions include imaging, spectral sensing, and ranging at a range resolution that is orders of magnitude finer than the native time resolution of a detector used in ...