ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,172, issued on June 23, was assigned to Teledyne FLIR Commercial Systems Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Dual band image switching compensation systems and methods" was invented by Julie Moreira (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques are provided to reduce fixed pattern noise (FPN) associated with the capturing of infrared images by infrared detectors operating in a dual band mode. In one example, a method includes operating a plurality of infrared detectors in a dual band mode to capture infrared images alternating between a first wavelength range and a second wavelength range. The operating comprises captu...