ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,822, issued on April 22, was assigned to Liquid Robotics Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Solar vehicle navigation" was invented by Christopher David Cencula (Roseville, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Navigation of a solar vehicle is provided by obtaining a target geographic destination for the vehicle having one or more photovoltaic solar arrays; obtaining configuration data defining a target solar vector relative to a reference frame of the vehicle; identifying a current geographic positioning of the vehicle via a geo-positioning system of the vehicle, including a current geographic location and a current geographic orientation of ...