US Patent Issued to THALES on Aug. 25 for "Navigation and positioning device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,046, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to THALES (Meudon, France).

"Navigation and positioning device" was invented by Nicolas Jean-Marc Frederic Vercier (Valence, France), Vincent Chopard (Valence Cedex, France), Jacques Coatantiec (Valence, France), Gregoire Brisson (Valence, France) and Emmanuel Nguyen (Valence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigation and positioning device including at least an inertial measurement unit, a GNSS measurement receiver, a unit for modeling the displacement(s) of the vehicle, a main Kalman filter calculating navigation data corrections by data hybridization, and at the output of the main Kalm...