ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,097, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Selex ES Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for electronic signature tracking" was invented by Todd Child (Greensboro, N.C.) and Bernard Howe (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to identify and track one or more targets of interest. The system may include a plurality of collection systems to capture information related to visual identifiers and/or electronic signatures associated with targets in selected locations. The system may further include an intelligence system to determine a target of interest based on the information related to visual identif...