US Patent Issued to L3Harris Technologies on April 14 for "Estimation of target location and sensor misalignment angles" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,596, issued on April 14, was assigned to L3Harris Technologies Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Estimation of target location and sensor misalignment angles" was invented by Michael Thomas Grabbe (Sachse, Texas), Michael Lindsey Mahaffey (Austin, Texas), Michael Duane Sapp (Garland, Texas) and Brian Joseph Holden (St. Paul, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data indicative of a line of sight to a target is obtained from a sensor mounted on an aircraft. Data indicative of an orientation of the aircraft relative to the Earth is obtained from a navigation system associated with the aircraft. An expression is generated that couples a first v...