ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,035, issued on July 14, was assigned to FLARE BRIGHT Ltd. (Westcott, Great Britain).

"Fluid flow estimation and navigation" was invented by Conrad Rider (Westcott, Great Britain), Carl Sequeira (Westcott, Great Britain) and Gabriel Furse (Westcott, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to methods, systems, and computer program products for determining a fluid flow estimate vector based on sensor measurements, from one or more inertial sensors, wherein the sensor measurements are indicative of a force on a vehicle. The force on the vehicle may be determined based on the received sensor measurem...