US Patent Issued to BAE Systems on Sept. 8 for "Head tracking system with inertial management unit for tracking helmet orientation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,501, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to BAE Systems PLC (London).

"Head tracking system with inertial management unit for tracking helmet orientation" was invented by Colin Richard Mills (Rochester, Great Britain) and Simon Trythall (Rochester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head tracking system HTS configured to determine a head position and/or a head orientation of a user includes one or more optical sensors producing optical measurements; and one or more inertial sensors producing inertial measurements; a processor configured, when the optical sensors fail to provide optical measurements to determine the head locat...