ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,622, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Joint maximum likelihood multiple emitter location estimation" was invented by Thomas R. Vaccaro (Hudson, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for jointly estimating geolocations of a plurality of emitting targets. An example method includes acquiring a plurality of bearing measurements, establishing a search grid based on the bearing measurements, performing a joint maximum likelihood optimization procedure on the bearing measurements over the search grid to produce an estimated geolocation solution by s...