ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,563, issued on July 29, was assigned to Digital Global Systems Inc. (Tysons Corner, Va.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for automatic signal detection based on power distribution by frequency over time within a spectrum" was invented by Ronald C. Dzierwa (Baltimore) and David William Kleinbeck (Lees Summit, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatus for automatic alarm management in a radio-frequency (RF) environment are disclosed. An apparatus calculates a power distribution by frequency of the RF environment in real time or near real time, including a first derivative and a second derivative of FFT data of t...