ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,684, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Secretary of State for Defence (Salisbury, Great Britain).

"Computer implemented method for detecting short pulse lasers" was invented by Sean Michael Tsi-Ong Tipper (Salisbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to the field of detecting pulsed radiation, in particular to methods and apparatus suitable for use in detecting short pulse lasers and extracting their pulse repetition frequencies, and especially an improved computer implemented method for detecting a pulse repetition frequency of pulsed radiation using a sensor array of sensor elements...