US Patent Issued to United States of America, Dept. of the Navy on Jan. 27 for "Intelligently-automated defensive threat coordinator" (Virginia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,302, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to United States of America, Dept. of the Navy (Washington).

"Intelligently-automated defensive threat coordinator" was invented by John C. Gaffe (Fredericksburg, Va.), Larry A. Thomas (Pflugerville, Texas) and Robert L. Goan (Driftwood, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing a detect-to-respond timeline. The method includes evaluating a threat status of at least one object, prioritizing, based on the threat status, each object, optimizing at least one potential response to each object, recommending at least one optimized response, and executing a response selected from the opt...