US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Jan. 27 for "Methods and devices for global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signal acquisition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,595, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Methods and devices for global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signal acquisition" was invented by Wei Yu (Torrance, Calif.), Richard G. Keegan (Irvine, Calif.) and Mark P. Kaplan (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for acquiring a signal from a satellite in a global navigation satellite system. The signal includes a pseudorandom code. The method includes, for each time period of a plurality of time periods: generating samples of the signal, segments of the samples of the signal are correlated with a local copy of the pseudora...