US Patent Issued to China Beacons Institute, University of Nottingham Ningbo China on Nov. 11 for "Ultrasonic wave-based indoor inertial navigation mapping method and system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,767, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to China Beacons Institute (Ningbo, China) and University of Nottingham Ningbo China (Ningbo, China).

"Ultrasonic wave-based indoor inertial navigation mapping method and system" was invented by Boon Giin Lee (Ningbo, China), Renjie Wu (Ningbo, China) and Matthew Pike (Ningbo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic wave-based indoor inertial navigation mapping method and system are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring inertial navigation data, ultrasonic data, and altitude data of a person for each step; determining a landing point position of a corresponding footstep according to...