ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,152, issued on June 23, was assigned to Teledyne FLIR Commercial Systems Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Multimodal imager systems and methods with steerable fields of view" was invented by Nicholas Hogasten (Santa Barbara, Calif.), John H. Distelzweig (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Kai Moncino (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods related to steerable fields of view are provided. In one embodiment, a system includes an image sensor configured to capture a field of view. The system further includes an optical assembly including an optical element configured to direct the field of view to the image sensor. The...