US Patent Issued to SAFRAN, Association Pour la Recherche et le Developpement des Methods et Processus Industriels-Armines on June 30 for "Navigation assistance method and device based on a Kalman filter" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,332, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris) and Association Pour la Recherche et le Developpement des Methods et Processus Industriels-Armines (Paris).

"Navigation assistance method and device based on a Kalman filter" was invented by Axel Barrau (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Colin Parellier (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Silvere Bonnabel (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for monitoring the navigation of a vehicle for the implementation of a navigation maneuver, the method including the steps of: estimating a magnitude by a Kalman filter from parameters, a digital model of the vehicle in its environment, and at leas...