ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,013, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Teledyne FLIR Defense Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Anomalous pixel processing using adaptive decision-based filter systems and methods" was invented by Irina Puscasu (Winchester, Mass.), Yael Steinsaltz (North Billerica, Mass.), Henry A. Kelley (Woburn, Mass.), Charles W. Handley (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Julie R. Moreira (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided to detect and/or replace anomalous pixels. In one example, a method includes receiving an image frame comprising a plurality of pixels having associated pixel values. The method also includes sel...