ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,041, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).
"Off-axis laser detection" was invented by Jonathan Habif (Los Angeles) and Andrew Rittenbach (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for off-axis detection of a laser source. The system may include an optical sensor configured to detect light, a focusing lens adjacent to an input of the optical sensor and configured to focus the light and an optical filter adjacent to an input of the focusing lens and configured to filter a wavelength of the light. A processor may be connected to the optical sensor and may implement disc...