US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 11 for "Methods and apparatus for relative guidance of watercraft" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,464, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and apparatus for relative guidance of watercraft" was invented by Abhijeet Agnihotri (Cambridge, Mass.) and Max Lewis Greene (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to relatively maneuver watercraft. A disclosed apparatus includes interface circuitry communicatively coupled to a sensor carried by a first watercraft, machine-readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine-readable instructions to: calculate a pose betwe...