US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on March 31 for "Node configured to determine ownship position information and/or ownship time information without transmitting two-way timing and ranging (TWTR) signals" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,302, issued on March 31, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Node configured to determine ownship position information and/or ownship time information without transmitting two-way timing and ranging (TWTR) signals" was invented by Joel M. Wichgers (Urbana, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a node configured to: listen to a first two-way timing and ranging (TWTR) interrogation message and a first TWTR response message communicated between a first node pair during a first time interval; determine a first time difference of arrival (TDoA) between the first TWTR interrogation message and the ...