US Patent Issued to NAVSYS on Sept. 22 for "Alternative systems and methods for global positioning, navigation, and timing" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,644, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NAVSYS Corp. (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

"Alternative systems and methods for global positioning, navigation, and timing" was invented by Alison Brown (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for navigation comprising a network for providing a position, navigation, and timing (PNT) service in which a monitor station collects snapshots from satellite signals with a high gain antenna, and publishes the snapshots and associated data to the network. Reference stations access the published snapshots, calculate a reference time of arrival (TOA) for the signal, and publish the...