ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,974, issued on July 28, was assigned to Teledyne FLIR Commercial Systems Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Imaging system node lock dependency discovery systems and methods" was invented by Yu En Yang (Surrey, Canada), Tzu Yeh Huang (Surrey, Canada) and Timothy Yat Tien Chan (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques are provided to generate a list of node names that cause a node in a machine vision camera to be locked. In one example, a method includes receiving a file identifying a plurality of nodes corresponding to features of a device, wherein each node has a plurality of settings and is configured to be in either...