ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,937, issued on June 23, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Methods and apparatus for data preprocessing" was invented by Alicia Scott (Bloomington, Ind.), Eli Phillips (Springville, Ind.), Logan Hedge (Bloomington, Ind.), Joseph Cesena (Norco, Calif.), James Michael McDonough (Ventura, Calif.), Stephanie Pham (Norco, Calif.), Nathalie Jesenia Huerta (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jared Sarabia (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and/or computer program products for data preprocessing are provided. The invention utilizes selective mo...