ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,637, issued on April 14, was assigned to Teledyne FLIR Commercial Systems Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Vacuum health detection for imaging systems and methods" was invented by Brian B. Simolon (Goleta, Calif.) and Naseem Y. Aziz (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for facilitating vacuum health detection for imaging systems and methods are provided. In one example, an imaging device includes a detector configured to generate a first reference signal. The imaging device further includes a buffer circuit configured to store a value of the first reference signal. The imaging device further includes a processing circuit...