US Patent Issued to Orbital Research on March 17 for "Flight deck unit and safety supervisor for enhanced navigation, fuzing, and guidance of unmanned vehicles or projectiles" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,175, issued on March 17, was assigned to Orbital Research Inc. (Cleveland).

"Flight deck unit and safety supervisor for enhanced navigation, fuzing, and guidance of unmanned vehicles or projectiles" was invented by Anthony Opperman (Wickliffe, Ohio), Douglas E Russell (Canal Fulton, Ohio), Frederick J Lisy (Euclid, Ohio) and Scott Suren (Lakewood, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to navigation, fuzing, and guidance of vehicles, and more particularly to such capabilities for unmanned vehicles, drones, or other related systems. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a flight deck unit ...