US Patent Issued to L3Harris Global Communications on April 29 for "Systems and methods for precise vehicle locator" (New York, Texas, North Carolina, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,236, issued on April 29, was assigned to L3Harris Global Communications Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for precise vehicle locator" was invented by Peter Burke (Hilton, N.Y.), Richard J. Nink (Melbourne, Fla.), Joel Womack (El Paso, Texas), Malcolm Packer (Hillsborough, N.C.), Thomas Howe (Rochester, N.Y.) and Aaron Hendershot (Webster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for locating UAV. The methods comprise: causing a physical joining of a payload with a fuselage of the UAV (where the payload comprises a communication relay); using a power source to supply power to the payload that is independent f...