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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2012
Applicant:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventors:
Ali Salour, St. Louis, MO (US);
Michael D. McInnis, Port Orchard, WA (US);
Douglas D. Trimble, St. Peters, MO (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 5/22 (2006.01); G01S 13/87 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 13/878 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of locating a tagged movable asset comprises determining blink counts for receivers in a plurality of zones, and selecting one of the zones according to a comparison of the blink counts.