US Patent Issued to GENERAL DYNAMICS MISSION SYSTEMS on Nov. 3 for "Navigation systems and methods using celestrial and inertial measurement data" (Arizona, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,136, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GENERAL DYNAMICS MISSION SYSTEMS INC. (Fairfax, Va.).

"Navigation systems and methods using celestrial and inertial measurement data" was invented by Thomas J. Wheeler (Tucson, Ariz.) and Brian Michels (Hancock, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for determining navigational information for an entity such as a vehicle using celestial measurements. One method involves determining a Kalman gain based at least in part on inertial measurement data at or before a current point in time associated with the celestial measurement data, determining a celestial measurement...