US Patent Issued to LOCATA on June 17 for "Methods and apparatus for improving the resilience of a positioning network" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,885, issued on June 17, was assigned to LOCATA CORPORATION PTY LTD (Bruce, Australia).

"Methods and apparatus for improving the resilience of a positioning network" was invented by David Small (Numeralla, Australia), Arved Brasch (Coombs, Australia), Ian Sainsbery (Scullin, Australia) and John Gordon (Bruce, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are provided for improving the resilience of a network of positioning-unit devices to failure of the reference device that controls the network timebase via timing information in its signal. In certain embodiments a predetermined one of the positioning-unit devices is...