US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Dec. 16 for "Aerial video based point, distance, and velocity real-time measurement system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,218, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Aerial video based point, distance, and velocity real-time measurement system" was invented by Gary A. Lunt (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining geo-reference data for a portion of a measurement area includes providing a monitoring assembly comprising a ground station, providing an imaging assembly comprising an imaging device with a lens operably coupled to an aerial device, hovering the aerial device over a measurement area, capturing at least one image of the measurem...