US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Oct. 14 for "Object classification based on spatially discriminated parts" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,166, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Object classification based on spatially discriminated parts" was invented by Suhail Shabbir Saquib (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Christopher M. Pilcher (Richardson, Texas) and John R. Goulding (Farmersville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for machine learning (ML) automatic target recognition (ATR) decision explanation are provided. A method can include receiving an object specification matrix from an object model database that indicates, for each of a plurality of physical portions of an object, whether each of a plurality of features...