US Patent Issued to Stratotegic on April 7 for "Autonomous control and navigation of unmanned vehicles" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,378, issued on April 7, was assigned to Stratotegic Inc. (Kingston, Canada).

"Autonomous control and navigation of unmanned vehicles" was invented by Martin Guay (Kingston, Canada) and Telema Harry (Kingston, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and controller for autonomous control and station-keeping of an unmanned vehicle uses sensor data corresponding to at least geographical location and vertical position of the unmanned vehicle within a fluid environment and computes a gradient of the unmanned vehicle movement, uses the gradient to estimate a vertical profile of a feature of the fluid environment that affects the grad...