ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,346, issued on July 8, was assigned to HRL LABORATORIES LLC (Malibu, Calif.).

"System and method for anomaly detection from hyperspectral data" was invented by Qin Jiang (Oak Park, Calif.) and Yuri Owechko (Newbury Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system for anomaly detection from hyperspectral data. The system receives, from a hyperspectral sensor, input hyperspectral data cubes with input data bands for every pixel. Using an optimization technique, an optimized number of virtual bands is determined to use for combining the hyperspectral data cubes to achieve optimal anomaly detection performance. The optimi...