ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,712, issued on April 22, was assigned to L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Three-dimensional system for UUV performance" was invented by Hunter C. Brown (Seekonk, Mass.) and Cagdas Altin (Warren, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle test system is illustrated. The vehicle test system includes a vehicle simulator comprising hardware from a vehicle to be tested. The test system further includes a controller coupled to the vehicle simulator configured to control the vehicle simulator. The test system further includes a 3D environmental simulator coupled to the vehicle simulator, wherein the 3D environmental simulato...