US Patent Issued to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration on April 8 for "System and method for YATO/YANTO classification" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,117, issued on April 8, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"System and method for YATO/YANTO classification" was invented by Benjamin P. Wood (Bedford, Mass.), Jeffrey A. Wallace (Nashua, N.H.), Jacob Branchaud (Londonberry, N.H.) and Marc J. Fredette (Manchester, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passive sensor is used in conjunction with a trained machine learning classifier to make a You Are The One/You Are Not The One (YATO/YANTO) classification or determination as to whether an object, such as a threat, is moving toward a platform. The trained machine learning clas...