ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,635, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to General Dynamics Mission Systems Inc. (Fairfax, Va.).

"Systems and methods for automated route planning including approximating a Pareto front" was invented by Benjamin Strasser (Minneapolis), Patrick Valentine Haggerty (St. Louis Park, Minn.), William Steven Singleton (Lantana, Fla.), Adam Gerber (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Melanie Grossman (Wolcottville, Ind.), Sandeep Rajdev (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and Sydney Matthys (Eagan, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for generating solutions to decision analysis problems. The systems include a processor configured to: receive...