ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,287, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Split time division multiple access network detector" was invented by John H. Chongoushian (Emerson, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node of a first TDMA network, such as a link 16 network, uses a first receiver to participate in the first network, while using a second receiver to detect and report a second TDMA network, which is not synchronized with the first network, by listening for a characteristic message from the second TDMA network. The timing error between the networks can be estimated from the recei...