ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,627, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for determining network channel status of tactical data link using AHP-TOPSIS" was invented by Daeyoung Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Younghoon Goo (Daejeon, South Korea), Heonjei Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sinuk Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and apparatus for determining a network channel status of a tactical data link. The method performed by the network channel status determining apparatus includes: defining indicators for network terminal channel status; settin...