US Patent Issued to Maxar Space on June 17 for "Convolutional neural network (CNN) for automatic target recognition in a satellite" (Virginia, Maryland, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,798, issued on June 17, was assigned to Maxar Space LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Convolutional neural network (CNN) for automatic target recognition in a satellite" was invented by Manuel Gonzalez-Rivero (Alexandria, Va.), David R. Herdzik (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Jonathan C. Harris (Ellicott City, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and structures are presented for implementing an automatic target recognition system as a convolutional neural network (CNN) in a satellite or other environment with constrained resources, such as limited memory capacity and limited processing capability. For example, this allows for the automatic targ...