ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,957, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sarcos Corp. (Salt Lake City).

"Closed loop tasking and control of heterogeneous sensor networks" was invented by Denis Garagic (Salt Lake City), Robert Ravier (Salt Lake City), Travis Galoppo (Princeton, N.C.), Rex Jameson (Salt Lake City) and Fraser M. Smith (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is described for controlling a heterogeneous sensor node network. The method can include obtaining sensor data from a plurality of sensors which include a plurality of sensor modalities in sensor nodes. The sensor data may be combined in a joint feature space that represents multim...