ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,945, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ANDURIL INDUSTRIES INC. (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

"System and method for detection and classification using a statistical feature vector" was invented by Michael Lee Picciolo (Leesburg, Va.), Wilbur Leon Myrick (Gainesville, Va.) and Jay Scott Goldstein (Great Falls, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for performing object detection and/or classification. The method includes (i) obtaining sensor data, (ii) processing the sensor data to obtain hypercube data representing the sensor data, (iii) transforming a data representation ...