ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,886, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CANYON CONSULTING LLC (El Segundo, Calif.).
"Spatial scanning PNT" was invented by Philip S. Kossin (Passaic, N.J.), James Lake (Torrence, Calif.) and Laura Duffy (Lawndale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a global, cislunar, interplanetary, local navigation system that can provide position, navigation, and/or time (PNT) to users. Embodiments may use scanning active electronically steerable antennas (AESA) on multiple satellite (or other) sources that scan their beams over a volume of interest. This enables the use of high-gain antenna beams while at the s...