ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,284, issued on March 4, was assigned to Knightwerx Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
"Unmanned system maneuver controller systems and methods" was invented by Daniel Baumgartner (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned system maneuver controller (USMC) includes an inertial navigation system (INS) for state estimation of the USMC in three-dimensional (3D) space, a communications device configured to communicate with an unmanned system, and a processor configured to receive, via the communications device, flight, maneuver, or dive data from the unmanned system, and generate flight, maneuver, or dive control instruc...