US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on April 8 for "Method and apparatus for navigation using a reduced number of transmitters" (Michigan, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,919, issued on April 8, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Kirtland AFB, N.M.).

"Method and apparatus for navigation using a reduced number of transmitters" was invented by Abi Komanduru (Okemos, Mich.) and Madeleine Naudeau (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining a position of a receiver from as few as two or three transmitters. The receiver may be stationary or moving with a known velocity. The system includes a receiver clock having a clock bias and a clock drift relative to a reference clock and may also include a motion sensor. A decoder r...