US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on Oct. 27 for "Position tracking using overhead aircraft" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,085, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Position tracking using overhead aircraft" was invented by William Gray Davis (Austin, Texas), Akshay Pai Raikar (Austin, Texas) and Joseph R. Fox-Rabinovitz (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for localization of an autonomous vehicle includes a plurality of radio receivers configured to receive automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) radio signals transmitted by a plurality of overhead aircraft, and at least one processor coupled to at least one memory and configured to perform operations comprising: based upon a first, a se...