ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,732, issued on May 27, was assigned to Anhui University (Hefei, China).

"Contextual visual-based SAR target detection method and apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Jie Chen (Hefei, China), Runfan Xia (Hefei, China), Zhixiang Huang (Hefei, China), Huiyao Wan (Hefei, China), Xiaoping Liu (Hefei, China), Zihan Cheng (Hefei, China), Bocai Wu (Hefei, China), Baidong Yao (Hefei, China), Zheng Zhou (Hefei, China), Jianming Lv (Hefei, China), Yun Feng (Hefei, China), Wentian Du (Hefei, China) and Jingqian Yu (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contextual visual-based synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) target detection meth...