US Patent Issued to Parsons on Oct. 21 for "Far-source position determination" (Virginia, Colorado, North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,503, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Parsons Corp. (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Far-source position determination" was invented by Martin C. Alles (Vienna, Va.), John P. Carlson (Sterling, Va.), Abdulwahaab Arif (Fairfax, Va.), Sharif Shaher (Clifton, Va.), Zachary Hester (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Ryan Riveland (Bismarck, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Two receivers located within a region of interest that is sufficiently small as compared to a distance to a source of a signal can be considered a "point". Signals received at that "point" are planar. Accordingly, any difference in the time of arrival of a signal from the source by...