ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,744, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NextNav LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Identifying erroneous calibration values of barometric air pressure sensor" was invented by Michael Dormody (San Jose, Calif.), Guiyuan Han (San Jose, Calif.), Badrinath Nagarajan (Cupertino, Calif.) and Arun Raghupathy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method involves identifying multiple calibration values and corresponding calibration confidence values of an initial calibration dataset in which one or more calibration values were derived using an atmospheric pressure measurement from a barometric air pressure sensor of a mobile device. A c...