US Patent Issued to LEATRON on June 30 for "Distributed vector-drag drone swarm system for dynamic positioning" (Turkish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,828, issued on June 30, was assigned to LEATRON LLC (Dover, Del.).

"Distributed vector-drag drone swarm system for dynamic positioning" was invented by Osman Levent Soyarslan (Istanbul).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrodynamic drag-modulation system for six-degrees-of-freedom (6-DoF) dynamic positioning (DP) of deep-sea payloads-including station-keeping and controlled translation of very large, submerged bodies-is introduced, wherein a distributed underwater swarm of vector-drag generating drones (tethered autonomous underwater vehicles or T-AUVs) leverages coordinated multi-agent control, independent of surface DP vessels and s...