US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on May 27 for "High speed strobe photography" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,957, issued on May 27, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"High speed strobe photography" was invented by Joel Bixler (San Antonio), Allen Kiester (San Antonio) and Gary Noojin (Universal City, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high speed photography system and method. The system and method use a split beam laser which is recombined after passing through an image then passed through a scanning apparatus, such as a rotating mirror, to form an image upon construction by a frame alignment algorithm. The image may be a 3D image. The system and/or me...