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Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020

Filed:

Feb. 07, 2017
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

John Clark Coonley Duksta, Seattle, WA (US);

Camerin Cole Hahn, Redmond, WA (US);

Fabian Thomas Hensel, Seattle, WA (US);

Ronald Eugene Huebner, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 1/06 (2006.01); G08G 5/00 (2006.01); G01S 1/02 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 1/06 (2013.01); G01S 1/024 (2013.01); G08G 5/0004 (2013.01); G08G 5/0069 (2013.01);
Abstract

Navigation beacons may be trained to receive signals of opportunity from one or more vehicles, to recognize their own position based on such signals, and to transmit information regarding their own position to one or more other vehicles accordingly. The navigation beacons may be of small size and feature a basic construction including one or more transceivers, power sources and the like, and may communicate via a Bluetooth® Low Energy, Ultra Wideband or long-range low-power wireless standard, or any other standard. The navigation beacons may be installed in any location, preferably being mounted to one or more existing fixed structures or facilities (e.g., transportation structures or facilities), and may operate in active and/or passive modes when learning their positions or servicing position information to one or more remote devices.


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