US Patent Issued to RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 3 for "Pose-driven position and navigation" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,820, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Pose-driven position and navigation" was invented by Scott E. Ritter (Sudbury, Mass.) and Michael J. Nicoletti (Johnston, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and body garment for pose-driven determination of a location of a body include: selecting a predetermined location of the body; determining a mode of locomotion of the body as the body moves; inferring the movement of the body and direction of the movement over a time period by combining physiological information of the body with calibration data; calculating a path travelled by the body ...