ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,230, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"GNSS tracking using cascaded probabilistic estimators" was invented by Marcus Greiff (Cambridge, Mass.), Karl Berntorp (Cambridge, Mass.) and Stefano Di Cairano (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state of a device is tracked based on transmissions from a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) by executing multiple probabilistic estimators concurrently tracking the state of the device using at least two measurement models of different size connecting the GNSS measurement data with the state of the device. One ...