US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for passive ranging of objects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,250, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for passive ranging of objects" was invented by Justin Gordon Adams Wehner (Goleta, Calif.) and Jamal Ibrahim Mustafa (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and associated methods relate to passive ranging of objects by using relative positional relation of the object to a coded aperture ranged object. A first range to a first object is determined via a coded-aperture ranging system based on a point spread function optimization of an image of the first object. The terrain surface between the first object and a second object is...