US Patent Issued to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on March 17 for "Radar measurement via characterization" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,903, issued on March 17, was assigned to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Radar measurement via characterization" was invented by Henry Thomas Rowland III (Fredericksburg, Va.), Jill Marie Ellington (Fredericksburg, Va.) and Denis Hugh McCabe (Fredericksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented radar simulation method is provided for directing a radar beam to a target. The method includes receiving target position from the target; computing target coordinates in a select frame of reference; inserting random noise error into the target coordinates as accura...