ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,012, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"System for evaluating radar vectoring aptitude" was invented by Keith M. Baldwin (McLean, Va.), Kerry Hutson (McLean, Va.) and Susan M. Schultheis (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for evaluating radar vectoring aptitude of an individual. An exemplary computer-implemented method comprises: displaying a graphic representation of an aircraft; displaying a predetermined shape of a plurality of predetermined shapes, wherein each of the plurality of predetermined shapes is associated with a faci...