A 2006 collaborative agreement between Florida Tech and Harris Corp. materialized into an image processing patent for a computer system, including a database and processor, for processing a type of radar (SAR) image. The system developed is useful both for military and civilian applications.
�There was such a rich exchange of informal ideas among Harris personnel and Florida Tech faculty that two-and-a-half-years ago we decided to formalize the relationship. Our hope was that joint projects would emerge such as this patented methodology,� said Robert Merrill, Florida Tech director of technology transfer.
Inventors on the patent are Harris image processing researchers and Gnana Bhaskar Tenali, a Florida Tech mathematical sciences professor. The Harris researchers all hold Florida Tech doctoral degrees.