ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,323, issued on Jan. 27.

"Updating vehicle attitude for extended dead reckoning accuracy" was invented by Vinod Kumar Saini (Bengaluru, India), Abdelmonaem Lakhzouri (Fremont, Calif.), Bo Zheng (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and William Morrison (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for vehicular navigation include determining a first attitude of a vehicle with respect to a reference frame at a first epoch, the determined first attitude including a determined first roll angle; computing an attitude of the INS at a second epoch that is subsequent to the first epoch; determining a second attitude of the vehicle at the second epo...