US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF NASA on Feb. 4 for "Assured geo-containment and conformance enforcement system for air, ground, and marine vehicles" (Virginia, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,615, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF NASA (Washington).

"Assured geo-containment and conformance enforcement system for air, ground, and marine vehicles" was invented by Evan T. Dill (Poquoson, Va.), Kyle M. Smalling (Newport News, Va.), Steven D. Young (Poquoson, Va.), Cuong C. Quach (Hampton, Va.), Kelly J. Hayhurst (Seaford, Va.), Anthony J. Narkawicz (Yorktown, Va.) and Russell V. Gilabert (Lewis Center, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A geo-containment system includes at least one unmanned vehicle and an enforcement system that is onboard the unmanned vehicle a...