US Patent Issued to L3Harris Technologies on March 25 for "Attitude error observations from image relative motions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,634, issued on March 25, was assigned to L3Harris Technologies Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Attitude error observations from image relative motions" was invented by Andrew Michael Beard (Healdsburg, Calif.) and James Suriano (Windsor, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: determining a target in a line of sight of an imaging device mounted to an aircraft; acquiring a plurality of images from the imaging device while steering the aircraft through a trajectory about the target; determining a mapping of a fixed reference feature in the plurality of images; and d...