ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,909, issued on Aug. 26.

"Timing determination in camera-based motion measurement systems" was invented by Matthew James Leary (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include using a camera to capture a group of image exposures of an object, where each exposure is illuminated by a respective illumination pulse from a sequence of pulses. The method may further include determining pulse ratios of pairs of the time intervals that exist between the pulses, as well as a distance ratio of two of the distances between two pairs of the exposures. Additionally, the method may include comparing the distance ratio to the pulse ratios...