ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,481, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).
"Motion steering under kino dynamic constraints" was invented by Navid Dadkhah Tehrani (Providence, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Motion steering under kino dynamic constraints is provided. A system can receive an indication to return to a route generated for autonomous navigation by the aircraft to a destination. The system can generate a vector field formed of a plurality of vectors that merge into the route. The vector field can be generated responsive to the indication to return to the route. The system can provide instructions to steer the aircraf...