US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on May 19 for "Methodology to provide assurance of data association in navigation and radar systems" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,048, issued on May 19, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Methodology to provide assurance of data association in navigation and radar systems" was invented by Vibhor L. Bageshwar (Rosemount, Minn.) and Anitha Murugesan (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing assurance of data association comprises formulating a track permutation matrix of measurement statistics based on sensor measurement returns and receiving a first set of correlated tracks from a correlator module (set a), identified as originating from a target. A second set of correlated tracks from the track permut...