ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,981, issued on March 31, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Effective method to estimate pose, velocity and attitude with uncertainty" was invented by Alberto Speranzon (Maple Grove, Minn.), Carl Arthur Dins (Phoenix), Juan Hu (Shanghai) and Arjun Bindu Jyothikumar (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and systems for utilizing an uncertainty map to select a best set of optical flow estimates for one or more vehicles. For instance, a method may include receiving one or more images captured by one or more cameras of at least one vehicle, analyzing the one or more images by inputti...