ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,218, issued on March 25, was assigned to APITRAK SAS (Meylan, France).

"System for assisting the orientation of an antenna of a beacon with regard to a target position" was invented by Eulalie Garrigues (Blagnac, France) and Luc Antolinos (Blagnac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for assisting the positioning, in particular the orientation, with regard to a target position, of an antenna of a beacon intended to be in communication link by radio signal with a transmitter/receiver device, the system including a system for representation of a lobe of the radiation pattern of the antenna of the beacon on a projection surf...