ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,718, issued on April 15, was assigned to Naval Aeronautical University (Yantai, China).

"Method for detecting and tracking low-observable target with boost-to-glide trajectory under condition of ambiguous slant range" was invented by Xiangyu Zhang (Yantai, China), Hongsen Xie (Yantai, China), Guochen Ding (Yantai, China), Jie Yu (Yantai, China), Changwen Zhan (Yantai, China) and Fengyuan Liu (Yantai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for detecting and tracking a low-observable target with a boost-to-glide trajectory under a condition of slant range ambiguity, and belongs to the field of dete...