ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,420, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SAAB AB (Linkoping, Sweden).

"Method for determining a position deviation, a positioning system and an underwater vehicle" was invented by Johan Carlstrom (Linkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (1000) for determining a position deviation of a first node the method comprising obtaining (1110) input data, at a first and second position. Said input data comprises, an estimated position of the first node (p1) and a first velocity vector (v1) of the first node, obtaining (1120) the exact position (p2*) of the second node; obtaining (1125) the emitted frequency (fe) of an acoustic...