US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Sept. 30 for "Magnetic positioning for vehicle groups" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,336, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy.

"Magnetic positioning for vehicle groups" was invented by Bryon A. Nelson (Charlestown, R.I.) and Matthew J Sylvia (Fairhaven, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of use is provided for the magnetic positioning of at least one vehicle of a vehicle group. The method includes detecting a magnetic field of a target vehicle with a magnetometer of a tracking vehicle, measuring a total strength of the detected magnetic field with the magnetometer, determining the magnetic field strength of the target vehi...