US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 14 for "Beacon-based approach guidance system" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,120, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Beacon-based approach guidance system" was invented by Timothy Allen Murphy (Marysville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beacon-based approach guidance system is disclosed. A disclosed method includes digitizing at least one signal received at an antenna array of a receiver of a vehicle to digitized data streams of I and Q samples, the at least one signal received from a beacon, the at least one signal modulated with a pseudorandom code at the beacon, correlating the I and Q samples to a locally generated pseudorandom code of the receiver to recover carr...