US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on Dec. 16 for "Angular velocity vector-based positioning system and method" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,447, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Angular velocity vector-based positioning system and method" was invented by Joel M. Wichgers (Urbana, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a node configured to: receive at least one signal from another node; determine an angular velocity vector between the node and the other node; determine a velocity vector of the node; determine a velocity vector of the other node; determine a relative velocity vector between the node and the other node; and determine a relative range vector between the node and the other node, the relative range ...