ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,065, issued on March 31, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Systems and methods for object detection in extreme low-light conditions" was invented by Stanley H. Chan (West Lafayette, Ind.), Chengxi Li (West Lafayette, Ind.), Abhiram Gnanasambandam (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Xiangyu Qu (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting objects in photon-limited environments is disclosed for use in, for example, security, defense, life science, autonomous vehicles, and various consumer and medical applications. At least one embodiment integrates a non-local feature a...