ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,952, issued on May 13, was assigned to Vita Inclinata IP Holdings LLC (Broomfield, Colo.).
"Long line loiter apparatus, system, and method" was invented by Derek Sikora (Denver), Caleb B. Carr (Denver) and Logan Goodrich (Golden, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Physical and logical components of a long line loiter control system address control of a long line loiter maneuver conducted beneath a carrier, such as a fixed-wing aircraft. Control may comprise identifying, predicting, and reacting to estimated states and predicted states of the carrier, a suspended load control system, and a long line. Identifying, predicting, and rea...