ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,193, issued on March 17, was assigned to Orbital Research Inc. (Cleveland).
"Multi-IMU guidance measurement and control system with handshake capability to refine guidance control in response to changing conditions" was invented by Michael Jankowski (Winter Garden, Fla.) and Edward J. Rapp (Cleveland Heights, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are systems and methods using inertial measurement units (IMUs) for providing location and guidance, and more particularly for providing location and guidance in environments where global position systems (GPS) are unavailable or unreliable (GPS denied and/or degraded environ...