ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,625, issued on July 22, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
"System and method using passive spatial awareness for GEO network routing" was invented by Tj T. Kwon (Marion, Iowa), William B. Sorsby (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Eric J. Loren (North Liberty, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) including a plurality of nodes. Each of the plurality of nodes is configured to transmit communication data packets and transmit beacons. Each of the plurality of nodes has passive spatial awareness. A first node has information of own node velocity, own node orientation, and...