ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,980, issued on May 5, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Aggregated vector and clock tracking in a GNSS receiver" was invented by Wei Yu (Torrance, Calif.), Richard G. Keegan (Irvine, Calif.), David Man Kui Li (Harbor City, Calif.), Mark P. Kaplan (Culver City, Calif.) and Brian C. Goodrich (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for navigating a mobile object receives satellite navigation signals from a plurality of satellites. Using one or more of the satellite navigation signals from the plurality of satellites, for each respective channel of a plurality of channels, the system generates an estimate of cl...