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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11984034 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 27, 2019

Unmanned vehicle positioning, positioning-based methods and devices therefor

Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Dibyendu Ghosh, Bangalore, IN;

Vinayak Honkote, Bangalore, IN;

Kerstin Johnsson, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Venkatesan Nallampatti Ekambaram, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Ganeshram Nandakumar, Bangalore, IN;

Vasuki Narasimha Swamy, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Karthik Narayanan, Bengalore, IN;

Alexander Pyattaev, Tampere, FI;

Feng Xue, Redwood City, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorneys:

Viering, Jentschura & Partner mbB

Benjamin L. von Rueden

Primary Examiner:

Peter D Nolan

Assistant Examiner:

Roy Rhee

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/10 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2023.01); B64D 47/08 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G08G 5/00 (2006.01); G08G 5/02 (2006.01); H04J 3/14 (2006.01); H04W 4/42 (2018.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 101/20 (2023.01); B64U 101/30 (2023.01); B64U 101/60 (2023.01); H04W 84/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 5/0008 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64D 47/08 (2013.01); G05D 1/101 (2013.01); G08G 5/025 (2013.01); H04J 3/14 (2013.01); H04W 4/42 (2018.02); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 2101/20 (2023.01); B64U 2101/30 (2023.01); B64U 2101/60 (2023.01); B64U 2201/102 (2023.01); B64U 2201/104 (2023.01); B64U 2201/20 (2023.01); H04W 84/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various methods and devices for positioning autonomous agents including verifying a reported agent location using physical attributes of the received signal; improving agent formation for iterative localization; selecting agents for distributed task sharing; intelligent beacon-placement for group localization; relative heading and orientation determination utilizing time of flight; and secure Instrument Landing System (ILS) implementation for unmanned agents.

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