ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,002, issued on July 28, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Neuromorphic sensor-based virtual sensor" was invented by Kin Gwn Lore (Belmont, Mass.), Kishore K. Reddy (Farmington, Conn.) and Ganesh Sundaramoorthi (Duluth, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments regard implementing operations that provide a virtual sensor. A method includes receiving, from a neuromorphic sensor, a time series of delta images, receiving auxiliary data indicating (i) an orientation, location, direction, or speed of the neuromorphic sensor, or (ii) metadata of the neuromorphic sensor, the auxiliary data associated with about a same time...