US Patent Issued to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems on Jan. 20 for "Relative navigation for aerial recovery of aircraft" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,584, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (San Diego).

"Relative navigation for aerial recovery of aircraft" was invented by Michael Joseph Allwein (San Luis Obispo, Calif.), David Childers (San Diego), Keith Richards (Ramona, Calif.), Jesse Stence (Leander, Texas) and Tony Goetz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a system for recovery of a target aircraft by a host aircraft, the system including a towline having a proximal section configured to be coupled with the host aircraft and a distal section configured to be paid out from the host aircraft, a fitting coupled with t...