ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,721, issued on May 6, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Active motion capture marker apparatus and method for unmanned or remote vehicles or wearables" was invented by Qiuyang Tao (Atlanta), Fumin Zhang (Alpharetta, Ga.), Tony X. Lin (Atlanta) and Zheyuan Xu (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary motion capture system, device, and method are disclosed herein to facilitate the implementation of active marker technology onto objects and systems whose design considerations require low weight, low power usage, and/or modular implementation. The exemplary motion capture system, device, and method connec...