US Patent Issued to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration on Sept. 15 for "System and method for ranging an object" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,971, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"System and method for ranging an object" was invented by Benjamin P. Wood (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Object ranging employing platforms having passive sensors to track the object moving towards the platforms. A wireless communication link enables the sharing of data between the platforms to determine the position or location of the object. The position of the object is provided in the form of closed-form function of time. A range-rate is derived from the closed-form function of time. Then, the...