US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Aug. 25 for "Techniques for using satellites to aid in geographical position determination" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,045, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Techniques for using satellites to aid in geographical position determination" was invented by Jonathan Densil (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for more accurately determining a geographical position of a body when Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals are jammed and/or spoofed. In the absence of valid GNSS data, data about beacon signals emitted by a plurality of satellites and each of the plurality of satellites is used with inertial measurement data to estimate the body's geographical position." ...