ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,987, issued on March 31, was assigned to HRL Laboratories LLC (Malibu, Calif.).

"Generating a virtual sensor signal from a plurality of real sensor signals" was invented by Logan D. Sorenson (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Patrick J. Webb (Sacramento, Calif.), Matthew J. Pelliccione (Santa Monica, Calif.), David T. Chang (Calabasas, Calif.) and Raviv Perahia (Agoura Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system comprising N real sensors for generating N real sensor signals, and a multiplexer for selecting M of the real sensor signals from the N of real sensor signals, where M is less than N. The computer system further com...