US Patent Issued to Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. a subsidiary of The Boeing on May 20 for "Navigation systems and methods for operation" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,910, issued on May 20, was assigned to Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. a subsidiary of The Boeing Co. (Manassas, Va.).

"Navigation systems and methods for operation" was invented by Jacob Kenin (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigation system for an aircraft includes a light source, a light sensor, one or more processors, and a computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the navigation system to perform functions. The functions include illuminating a surface using the light source to cause light to be reflected from the surface and detecting the light and generat...