US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on March 17 for "Planning of unmanned underwater vehicle surfacing events" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,736, issued on March 17, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy.

"Planning of unmanned underwater vehicle surfacing events" was invented by Jorge G Jimenez (Panama City, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for planning locations to surface an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) to reset inertial navigation errors by obtaining a GPS fix. A spatial point process model for historical maritime traffic is used to quantify surfacing risk throughout an operational area. Accumulated navigation uncertainty for each candidate surfacing point of a feasible path is...