US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 16 for "Clock synchronization during global navigation satellite system holdover" (Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,811, issued on June 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Clock synchronization during global navigation satellite system holdover" was invented by Aditya Chopra (Austin, Texas), Mustafa Cenk Erturk (Austin, Texas) and Arunabha Ghosh (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies directed to estimating global navigation satellite system (GNSS) holdover time solutions are described. At a first time, at least four navigation messages are received. These navigation messages are used to determine an Earth-Centered, Earth-Fixed (ECEF) position. At a second time after the first time, less than four navigati...