US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on Feb. 17 for "Proactive link acquisition (spatial awareness)" (Iowa, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,978, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Proactive link acquisition (spatial awareness)" was invented by Eric J. Loren (North Liberty, Iowa), Tj T. Kwon (Marion, Iowa), William B. Sorsby (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and James A Stevens (Lucas, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed. The system may include a receiver or transmitter node. The receiver or transmitter node may include a communications interface with an antenna element and a controller. The controller may include one or more processors and have information of own node velocity and own node orientation relative to a c...