US Patent Issued to AXON ENTERPRISE on Sept. 1 for "Automatic license plate recognition using asymmetric camera lens" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,249, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to AXON ENTERPRISE INC. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Automatic license plate recognition using asymmetric camera lens" was invented by Juha Alakarhu (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cameras for automatic license plate recognition ("ALPR") systems comprise an asymmetric lens for focusing light received by the camera. The asymmetric lens may comprise a curvature configured to modify one or more focus areas of the field of view, such that one or more regions of a scene captured by the ALPR system are optimized to focus at a distance corresponding to an expected object of interest in the respective r...