US Patent Issued to Target Arm on Sept. 29 for "Method for precision localization of aircraft in dynamic Euclidean reference frames while moving" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,022, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Target Arm Inc. (Ridgefield, Conn.).

"Method for precision localization of aircraft in dynamic Euclidean reference frames while moving" was invented by Jeffrey Alan McChesney (Ridgefield, Conn.), Ryan Bennett Bigham (Sandy Hook, Conn.) and Ankit Kumar (Woodbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to capturing and launching autonomous aircraft from moving vehicles. It provides a solution to an aerodynamic problem by enabling precision localization while a host vehicle is moving. This invention is distinguished by using precise local reference frames instead of g...