ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,615, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Common framework for sensor and communication models" was invented by Paul C. Hershey (Ashburn, Va.), Vikram A. Prasad (Reston, Va.) and Marcus Alton Teter (Belgrade, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media for concurrent visualization of sensor and communications operations. A method can include receiving mission data indicating a target, a sensor, a communications system, and an operation to be performed regarding the target, identifying one or more operational layer, functional layer, and physical layer model...