US Patent Issued to Aurora Flight Sciences on Feb. 18 for "System for navigating an aircraft based on infrared beacon signals" (Virginia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,156, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. (Manassas, Va.).

"System for navigating an aircraft based on infrared beacon signals" was invented by Adam Ehrmantraut (Dumfries, Va.), Melissa Dominguez (Manassas, Va.) and Amaresh Emani (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for facilitating navigation of an aircraft comprises one or more processors and a memory coupled to the processors. The memory stores data into a data store and program code that, when executed by the processors, causes the system to detect an infrared site signal indicating a site code transmitted by one or more infrared ...