US Patent Issued to GE Aviation Systems on Sept. 22 for "Vehicle position estimation system" (Mexican Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,645, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to GE Aviation Systems LLC (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Vehicle position estimation system" was invented by Juan Jose Alejandro Cabello Maldonado (Queretaro, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for estimating a position of a vehicle. The vehicle includes a gradiometer. The method includes calculating a gravity vector using a gravity spatial derivative generated by the gradiometer and a plurality of body velocities generated by a body velocity source, calculating a gravity potential based on the gravity vector, and estimating an inertial measurement unit (IMU)-based position us...