ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,020, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Astra Navigation Inc. (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Using magnetic-sensor data to correct for INS drift" was invented by Alexandre Toutov (Kingston, Canada), Anton Toutov (Magnolia, Texas), Oleksiy Lutsyk (Inowroclaw, Poland) and Maryna Mukhina (Warsaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a trajectory and comparing a first one of multiple portions of the trajectory with a second one of the portions. A greater level of confidence is associated with the first one of the portions than the second one of the portions. The method includes determining, based o...