US Patent Issued to SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE on Feb. 17 for "Method and unit for calculating inertial navigation data" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,720, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE (Paris).

"Method and unit for calculating inertial navigation data" was invented by Yannick Foloppe (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Benjamin Deleaux (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This inertial navigation unit comprises a navigation data acquisition unit (1) and a first navigation stage (2) capable of calculating hybrid navigation values by combining navigation data. It further includes a second navigation stage (3) capable of calculating certified navigation values independently of the hybrid navigation values, said certified navigation value...