ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,097, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Odyssey Systems Consulting Group Ltd. (Wakefield, Mass.).

"System and method for advanced mission planning" was invented by Reid Webber (Sarasota, Fla.), Stephen St. Mary (Medfield, Mass.), Andrew Kennedy (Holliston, Mass.) and Alessandro Agnello (Peabody, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments generally relate to systems and methods that provide for a real-time, globally federated collaboration environment to support normalized Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination planning, scheduling and reporting. Specifically, exempla...