US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on Oct. 20 for "Detection and tracking of low signal-to-noise ratio moving targets in remote sensing imagery" (New Mexico Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,289, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Detection and tracking of low signal-to-noise ratio moving targets in remote sensing imagery" was invented by Daniel Paul Barrett (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting and tracking objects in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) remote sensing imagery includes receiving a sequence of images depicting a scene over time. A set of velocity-state images representative of possible positions and velocities of objects is computed for each time at which an image was received. When a current ima...