ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,386, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLC (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Ground-based data acquisition system" was invented by Bryan Adam Theriault (Caledonia, Mich.) and Dashiell Matthews Kolbe (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for navigating an aerial vehicle are provided. One example aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a method for navigating an aircraft. The method includes receiving, by one or more processors, one or more first geographic coordinates via an interface configured to receive geographic coordinates from a satellite transmission. The method includes rec...