ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,743, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Position estimation device and position estimation method" was invented by Kohtaro Sabe (Tokyo), Haruto Takeda (Tokyo), Peter Duerr (Tokyo), Satoru Shimizu (Tokyo), Tsutomu Sawada (Tokyo) and Kousuke Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a device including an acquisition unit that acquires information indicating a position estimation system selected from among a plurality of position estimation systems for estimating a position of a flight vehicle, and a position estimation unit that estimates the position of the flight vehicle from first informatio...