ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,700, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Reliable Robotics Corp. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Cross-checking localization during aircraft terminal operations" was invented by Michael Andrew Sherback (Mountain View, Calif.), Robert W. Rose (Los Altos, Calif.), Matthew T. Nehrenz (San Jose, Calif.) and John P. Couluris (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system having components coupled to an aircraft in operation processes sensor-derived data, performs a localization cross-checking procedure, and dynamically generates updated analyses of the position and orientation of the aircraft. Based on the updated analyses, the s...