ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,821, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Method for assisting with the navigation of a vehicle" was invented by Axel Barrau (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, navigation device and computer program product for assisting with the navigation of a vehicle equipped with a navigation device, comprising the following steps: acquiring (201) a priori values of kinematic variables of the navigation device, determining (202) respective current values of kinematic variables of the navigation device and a current uncertainty matrix representative of an uncertainty of the respective current values of the...