US Patent Issued to EAGLE TECHNOLOGY on April 8 for "Satellite automatic identification system (AIS) for estimating position of potential spoofing maritime vessels and related methods" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,915, issued on April 8, was assigned to EAGLE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Satellite automatic identification system (AIS) for estimating position of potential spoofing maritime vessels and related methods" was invented by Edward R. Beadle (Melbourne, Fla.) and Steven R. Heuser (Palm Bay, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite Automatic Identification System (AIS) is for tracking a plurality of maritime vessels. The AIS may include a ground AIS server and a constellation of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites in communication with the ground AIS server. Each LEO satellite may include an AIS payload configured to receive A...