ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,084, issued on July 15, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"System and method for remote sensing using data fingerprinting methodologies" was invented by Joseph D. Khair (El Segundo, Calif.) and Christopher M. Cosner (El Segundo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for processing and storing remote sensing data. An exemplary method includes collecting information regarding a target based on an objective; receiving the information regarding the target; temporally storing the information regarding the target; deriving, using the information regarding the target, a first data fingerprint ba...