ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,646, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Digital Global Systems Inc. (Tysons Corner, Va.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for geolocation with deployable large scale" was invented by David William Kleinbeck (Lees Summit, Mo.), Ronald C. Dzierwa (Baltimore) and Daniel Carbajal (Severna Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus for geolocating a signal emitting device are disclosed. A monitoring array comprises at least four monitoring units. A distance ratio between the at least four monitoring units relative to a midpoint is determined. The at least four monitoring units are operable to scan independentl...