US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Sept. 30 for "Distributed satellite constellation for cooperative multi-target tracking" (California, Colorado, New Jersey, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,598, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Distributed satellite constellation for cooperative multi-target tracking" was invented by Amit Surana (Newington, Conn.), Yiqing Lin (Montgomery, N.J.), Tuhin Sahai (San Francisco), Laura A. Gordon (Aurora, Colo.) and David C. Fisher (Evergreen, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auction-based distributed method for cooperative multi-target tracking by a plurality of satellites, includes distributed target tracking error and utilization computation as an auction bid across the satellite and uses message-passing to find best bid, handles different tracking...