US Patent Issued to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration on March 3 for "Ionospheric delay measurement for reduced GPS power consumption" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,277, issued on March 3, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Ionospheric delay measurement for reduced GPS power consumption" was invented by Steven D. Aab (Robins, Iowa) and John E. Acheson (Anamosa, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for power management of a global positioning system (GPS) receiver. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes calculating a pedestal ionospheric delay based on a phase difference between a first GPS signal at a first center frequency and a second GPS signal at a second center frequen...