ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,937, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Horizon Technologies Consultants Ltd. (Reading, Great Britain).

"Techniques for determining geolocations" was invented by Gary A. Goodrum (Coto de Caza, Calif.), John Beckner (Reading, Great Britain) and David Saunders (Reading, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described geolocation techniques determine a location of an earth-based vehicle using a non-geostationary satellite. For instance, the non-geostationary satellite receives signals transmitted by the earth-based vehicle, determines the arrival times of the signals, and the position information of the satellite correspondin...