ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,849, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Raytheon Applied Signal Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and device for signal fingerprinting using joint feature likelihoods" was invented by Joshua Miraglia (Dammeron Valley, Utah), Zachary Kent Rasmussen (Farmington, Utah), Lisa Miller (Draper, Utah) and David A. Zaugg (Lehi, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The likelihood that a signal waveform is a Fabry-Perot signal is determined using features belonging the signal waveform. Features include a periodic peak difference likelihood and a gain profile likelihood. A spectrum snapshot of a signal waveform is captured for an optica...