ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,673, issued on May 6, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).
"Aircraft guidance to moving target point" was invented by Rolf Rysdyk (Hood River, Ore.) and Mohammad Ehsan Nasroullahi (Vancouver, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of guidance for an aircraft includes obtaining relative position data indicative of a direction from a location of the aircraft to a location of a moving target point. The method also includes determining, based on the relative position data, a location of a virtual leader based on projecting the location of the aircraft onto a virtual leader path, where the virtual leader path corres...