ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,507, issued on May 12, was assigned to 4596286 Manitoba Ltd (Stony Mountain, Canada).
"System and method for tilt dead reckoning" was invented by Tyler Desmond Melmoth (Winnipeg, Canada) and Howard William Loewen (Winnipeg, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for tilt dead reckoning is provided. The system and method allows an autopilot of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to perform dead reckoning with a hovering vehicle during GNSS signal loss by estimating the position and velocity of the vehicle based on its pitch and roll angles and known vehicle dynamics. The position and velocity are estimated using tables ...