ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,225, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).
"Chain" was invented by Samuel Shapero (Atlanta), Matthew Lashley (Atlanta), Daniel Levy (Atlanta) and Mark H. Smith (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed control system and method for decentralized, collaborative platform navigation, routing, and/or control are disclosed employing a distributed, factorized positioning, navigation, and timing chain that can link platforms or nodes having local sensors together by their local inertial and ranging measurements. In the distributed, factorized PNT chain, each platform maintains and contributes ...