US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on April 7 for "Day/night filter glass for aircraft camera systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,290, issued on April 7, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Day/night filter glass for aircraft camera systems" was invented by Kyle Krafka (Los Altos, Calif.) and Dinuka Abeywardena (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for using an onboard camera capable of day and night operation on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes: traveling along a route of the UAV at night; and acquiring an aerial image with an onboard camera. The onboard camera includes: a sensor device for receiving photons and converting the photons into photoelectrons; a processor for processing the photoelectrons int...