ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,370, issued on Dec. 2.

"Systems, methods, and apparatus to obtain the orientation of platforms" was invented by Navid Tadayon (Ottawa) and Ahmad Vakili (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relates to systems, methods, and apparatuses for improving the orientation data of multiplicity of users. In one embodiment, the orientation data is generated from synchronous processing of phase information extracted from transmit points transmitting reference signals to multiplicity of users. The transmit points can be one or more reference points of known location and orientation and one or more users which locations a...