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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2019
Applicant:
The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Inventors:
Alexander Clifton Utter, Hawthorne, CA (US);
Chang Lee, Yorba Linda, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 19/24 (2010.01); G01S 1/02 (2010.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); G01S 19/37 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 19/24 (2013.01); G01S 1/02 (2013.01); G01S 19/37 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02);
Abstract
A tracking system includes one or more modulated projectors configured to broadcast a plurality of signals to a plurality of tracking receivers. Each of the plurality of signals is modulated with a message. The message includes positioning information for any of the plurality of tracking receivers receiving the message. The positioning information identifies a location of one or more the tracking receivers able to receive that message.