US Patent Issued to Raytheon on March 31 for "Method and apparatus for cooperative multi-target assignment" (Connecticut, California, Colorado, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,067, issued on March 31, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Method and apparatus for cooperative multi-target assignment" was invented by Yiqing Lin (Montgomery, N.J.), Amit Surana (Newington, Conn.), Tuhin Sahai (San Francisco), Laura A. Gordon (Aurora, Colo.) and David C. Fisher (Evergreen, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including: receiving, at a given satellite, a target list, the target list identifying a plurality of targets; identifying a plurality of satellites of which the given satellite is part; generating, at the given satellite, a plurality of satellite-target pairs, each satellite-target pai...