US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on Aug. 26 for "Method and apparatus for error mitigation in an inertial navigation system" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,011, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for error mitigation in an inertial navigation system" was invented by Jani Kappi (Tampere, Finland) and Tuomo Honkanen (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product are configured to mitigate error in an inertial navigation system (INS) that relies upon a reference system to determine or update filter parameters. In a method, a determination is made of (i) deviation or divergence of a filter of the INS and/or (ii) invalidity of observation(s) by the reference system. The method ...