US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 8 for "Methods and systems for determining and visualizing GNSS availability within an operational area" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,228, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Methods and systems for determining and visualizing GNSS availability within an operational area" was invented by Sandy Pyke (Saint-Constant, Canada), Nathan Pugh (Broomfield, Colo.) and Jonathan P. Peck (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one instance, disclosed herein is a method for providing a GNSS future coverage map, the method comprising: receiving worksite geography data associated with a worksite and satellite ephemeris data associated with a future time period; determining, based at least in part on the worksite geography data and the sa...