US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on May 5 for "Navigational beaconing via doppler null scanning (DNS)" (Texas, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,929, issued on May 5, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Navigational beaconing via doppler null scanning (DNS)" was invented by James A. Stevens (Lucas, Texas), Steven V. Schatz (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Matthew D. Bousselot (Marion, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes at least a receiving (Rx) and transmitting (Tx) node in relative motion, the Rx node aboard an aircraft or other vehicle. The Rx and Tx nodes include a communications interface with antenna elements and a controller including one or more processors, each node knowing own-node velocity and orientation relative to a common refere...