ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,818, issued on April 21, was assigned to GRVTY INC. (Arlington, Va.).

"Edge-deployed automated target recognition and tracking system with distributed processing architecture" was invented by Adam Estrada (Reston, Va.), Casey Backes (Tysons, Va.), Kristen E. Mistysyn (Erie, Colo.), Dave Rabrun (Rockville, Md.), Nicholas Stephens (Thornton, Colo.) and Kaleb Boyd (Flowery Branch, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for edge-deployed automated target recognition with distributed processing architecture. The system processes satellite sensor data directly at the edge using coordinated services for object detection and...