MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517049101 A) filed by Archer Aviation Inc., San Jose, U.S.A., on May 21, for 'systems and methods for active-light based precision localization of aircrafts in gps-denied environments.'
Inventor(s) include Hunter, Anthony; Mclain, Timothy; Mangelson, Joshua; Long, Gary; Hopman, Pablo; Kumar, Siddhartha; Akagi, David Christopher; and Velasco, Kalliyan.
The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Systems and methods of providing guidance to assist eVTOL aerial vehicles in performing landing and takeoff operations at landing locations in GPS-denied environments are disclosed. An exemplary system includes an aerial vehicle comprising a camera configured to generate images based on information transmitted by a plurality of light sources located adjacent a landing surface for the aerial vehicle and a controller circuit configured to receive the generated images and determine a position and an orientation of the aerial vehicle based on the received images, wherein the light sources are arranged in a predetermined pattern on the landing surface, and wherein a characteristic of light emitted from each of the light sources is modulated with respect to time."
The patent application was internationally filed on Aug. 29, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/073067.
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